William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

