You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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