The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
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...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

