William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Dead Good Walks
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
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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