The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City