William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
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
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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