William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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