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