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
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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