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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum 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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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