William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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