The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

