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

