William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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