William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
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...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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