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
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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