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