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