William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

