William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
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