William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
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 Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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