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
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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