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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

