William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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