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...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...
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...

