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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
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Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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