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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

