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...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
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...

