In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Twin Cities Area
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate 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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

