William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...

