The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

