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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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