William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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