The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Twin Cities Area
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
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...

