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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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