The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

