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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...

