William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

