William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

