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
The Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

