The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

