William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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