You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
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...

