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
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
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