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 Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis was founded in 1907 by 39 of the city’s most influential women.This...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 6 School in New Sweden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill 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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

