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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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