The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

