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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
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...
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
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
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