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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown