William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
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
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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