William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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