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...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...

