You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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