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