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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

