You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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