The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
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...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

