The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

