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
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
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