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...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

