You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

