The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

