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
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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