The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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 Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

