William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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