The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

