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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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