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
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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