William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

