On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

