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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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