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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
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...

