William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul