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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

