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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House 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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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 John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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