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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

