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
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
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...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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