William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery and Wurstery is located near the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown