The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

