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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

