The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

