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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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