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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...

