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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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