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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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