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
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
World-renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in an apartment on the second floor of this...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
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