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
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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