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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery is located at the foot of a bluff on the banks of the Root River. Brewing...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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
