You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown