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
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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