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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
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...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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