William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown