The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown