Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesotaโs most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
Twin Cities Area
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
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...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdingerโs grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
โOnce upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

