Courtesy of the Stearns History Museum
(KNSI) – Stearns County laid the foundation for the historic courthouse 100 years ago.
Construction started on the courthouse in St. Cloud in 1921, and the building was completed in 1922.
According to the Stearns History Museum, the county needed a new government center because they outgrew the original courthouse built-in 1865. Starting in the 1910s and 1920s, the county’s population grow by more than 15,000.
Courtesy of the Stearns History Museum
Charles Skooglun, out of St. Paul, was hired to build the courthouse. Architects Toltz, King, and Day of St. Paul designed the building in the Beaux-Arts style.