William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

