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 Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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