William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

