The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

