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...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Island Project In the fall of 1953, the peaceful quiet of the north shore just south of...
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

