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

