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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

