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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
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 The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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