William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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 Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

