You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

