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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

