The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...

