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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
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
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown