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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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