William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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