William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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