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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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