William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In 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