William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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