The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

