The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown