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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
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
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
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