The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

