William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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