The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

