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
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

