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