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 Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...

