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
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...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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