William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

