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
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
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