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