The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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...

