The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...

