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

