You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

