The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
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 Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
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
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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