The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...

