William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
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
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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