William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown