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
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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