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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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