The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City