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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
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...
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
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

