William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...

