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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

