The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

