William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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