William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

