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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

