The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

