William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After 120 years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening of July 29th, 1895...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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