William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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