The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

