The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

