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
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
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
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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