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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

