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
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
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