The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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...

