You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

