William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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