The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

