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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Milford Monument
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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