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
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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