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...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

