The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

