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...
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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