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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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