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...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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