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 Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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