The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

