William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
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