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 Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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