William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
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
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
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