The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

