The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown