The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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