You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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