William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
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
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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