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

