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
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

