On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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