The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

