The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
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
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City