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...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
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
Old Brewery In Preston