The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

