Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Twin Cities Area
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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