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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

