William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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