William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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