The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

