The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

