The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown