You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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