You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown