You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

