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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

