Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Twin Cities Area
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City