The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul