The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Island Project In the fall of 1953, the peaceful quiet of the north shore just south of...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Milford Monument
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...

