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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Le Sueur Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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