The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
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
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

