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...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...

