You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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