William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery is located at the foot of a bluff on the banks of the Root River. Brewing...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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
