William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moving Old Hibbing
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
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