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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

