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...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

