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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
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
Old Brewery In Preston