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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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