William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
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...
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
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
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