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 Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston