William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

