The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

