William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

