The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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