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
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan 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...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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