You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

