The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery is located at the foot of a bluff on the banks of the Root River. Brewing...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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
