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...
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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