William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
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
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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