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...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

