TOWN OF BLUE MOUNDS – Olav Sigurd Kvaale was convinced he had seen the last of the nomadic building constructed in his homeland with the help of his grandfather in the early 1890s. But a year after ...

MOORHEAD (AP) -- At age 58, Guy Paulson retired from a satisfying career as a research scientist. Then he really went to work. Practically single-handedly, he built a full-sized replica of a ...

MinnPost’s reporting is always free, but it isn’t free to produce. We rely on donations from our readers to fund our independent journalism. Built between 1996 and 2001, the Hopperstad Stave Church ...

The Heritage Hjemkomst Interpretive Center will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Moorhead Hopperstad Stave Church replica donated to the center and the city of Moorhead in 1998 by the Paulson ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Norway Building is home. The ornate, stave church replica has returned to its country of origin and was dedicated Saturday not only in front of hundreds of native Norwegians ...

The medieval wooden “stave” church at Urnes by the Sognefjord in western Norway is one of art history’s most mesmerising Sleeping Beauties. For all that it enjoys Unesco world heritage status, has ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. The largest of Norway’s remaining stave churches, Heddal stave ...

The Norwegian stave church-style home in Oronoco Township just northeast of Rochester includes custom timber frames and wood carvings throughout the home. As a Norweigan stave church-style home, there ...

"As time wore on and Hamilton increased in population and importance it was found inconvenient to have no Church within town limits, and the Parish Church, moreover, was unequal to the wants of the ...

It's such a fixture in the area that it may be hard for some to believe that it's only been 10 years since the stave church was dedicated at the Hjemkomst Center in Moorhead. Guy Paulson, a Fargo ...