William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
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