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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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
Carnegie Library In Watertown