The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

