William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery is located at the foot of a bluff on the banks of the Root River. Brewing...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

