You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

