The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

