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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
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...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...

