The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

