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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
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