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