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...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
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