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
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Welcome To Dotson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

