As Milwaukee's early immigrant groups settled in the city throughout the early and mid-19th century, each brought unique customs and religious practices from their homelands. Many groups ...

English cathedrals with working stonemasonry teams are shown below. Most stonemasonry methods have not changed in more than 800 years, though contemporary problems like acid rain compound age-old ...

A significant part of any community's history, churches are often one of the first buildings erected when a new area is settled. The same is true for Oklahoma, and many of these historical ...

On a recent sunny day in May, Russian Orthodox priest Timothy Kolb unlocked a padlock securing the door to Anchorage’s oldest standing building and stepped inside. The small, rough-hewn building ...

Sean Marrow, a local high school history teacher, is the foremost authority on the legacy of the oldest standing Catholic church west of the Alleghenies. He says that it took the 30-some Irish ...

Rev. Johnson says it was the first church in Tacoma and possibly one of the longest standing buildings in Old Town. Pete Caster Pete Caster / The News Tribune One of the most powerful men in ...