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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

