The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Lost Highway 61
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

