You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

