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
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
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
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
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