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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown