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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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