William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of 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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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