On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

