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...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
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...

