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
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown