The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

