On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

