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...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

