You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

