You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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 Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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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