The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

