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...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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