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...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

