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
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

