William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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