William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

