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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

