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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

