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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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