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 Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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