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 Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Milford Monument
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Ottawa
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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