William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

