William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

