The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

