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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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