William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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