William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
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