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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
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...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

