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 Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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