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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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