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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

