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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Visiting Golden Gate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...

