William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
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 Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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