You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
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 Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

