The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

