The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Donโt...
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill 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 motherโs death in 1905...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...

