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...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
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
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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