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...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

