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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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