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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown