The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

