William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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