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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown