William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

