The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

