The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Island Project In the fall of 1953, the peaceful quiet of the north shore just south of...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

