William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

