William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Red Wing Iron Works
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

