The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

