William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Red Wing Iron Works
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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