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...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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