You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Little Marais Inn
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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