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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
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
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

