The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

