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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
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...

