William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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