The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

