The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

