William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
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
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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
Old Brewery In Preston