You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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