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...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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