The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

