William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

