The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
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...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

