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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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