The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Dead Good Walks
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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