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