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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

