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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
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...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

