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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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