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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Veda Ponikvar?
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...

