William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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