William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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