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