William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
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
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor 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