William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
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