On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown