The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

