The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

