The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

