You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

