William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
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
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
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