William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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