William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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