William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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