Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
Twin Cities Area
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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