The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

