William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
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...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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
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
Old Brewery In Preston