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