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...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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