You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown