William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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