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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
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