You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
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...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

