William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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