The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

