William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

