The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

