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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown