William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

