The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Milford Monument
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

