William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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