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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
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 Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
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