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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

