The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his motherโs death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you ๐ The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...

