On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

