The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

