You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston