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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

