William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

