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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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