William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

