William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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