William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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
Old Brewery In Preston