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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

