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...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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