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...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown