The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
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...
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
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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