The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

