The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

