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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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