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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

