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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
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
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

