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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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