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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

