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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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