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