William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
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