The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
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...
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

