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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
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 Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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