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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In 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