The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

