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...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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 donโt...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

