The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Florence Town Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

