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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
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