William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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