The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

