The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City