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
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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