The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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