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 Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

