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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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