The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
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 Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

