William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
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