You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

