William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

