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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
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...
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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