Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Twin Cities Area
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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