William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

