William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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