You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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