The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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