William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

