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 Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis was founded in 1907 by 39 of the city’s most influential women.This...
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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