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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Dead Good Walks
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 Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

