William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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