The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

