On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 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...

