You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

