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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank 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...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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...

