William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Little Marais Inn
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...

