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...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Wasioja
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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