The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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