The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

