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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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