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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
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...
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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