William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

