The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
World-renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in an apartment on the second floor of this...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
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
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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