William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
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
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

