You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

