The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

