On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

