William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
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...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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