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...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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