The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

