The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

