The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

