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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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 Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

