William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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
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