The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

