William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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