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
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

