William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didnโt leave behind much...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

