William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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