The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdingerโs grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butlerโs interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

