William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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