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
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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