William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
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...
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
Old Brewery In Preston