William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis was founded in 1907 by 39 of the city’s most influential women.This...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...

