The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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