William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

