William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle 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...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Brewery In Preston
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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