William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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