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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

