The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
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 Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...

