You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

