William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

