Rock County, in the southwest corner of Minnesota, has a remarkable collection of small concrete bridges. Many were the work of Perley Gillham, a self-taught architect and engineer active in…

The Weyerhaeuser Timber Company—one of the most successful logging companies in the country—built a lumberyard in the Midway to take advantage of the nearby network of railroads. The yard served…

With an awe-inspiring location on the Mississippi River at Saint Anthony Falls, Hennepin Island presented a unique opportunity for interpreting waterpower’s essential role in propelling Minneapolis’s growth in the late…

Construction was about to begin on a new ballpark in downtown Saint Paul when Section 106 issues threatened to delay the project. The city asked us to help get through…

Established shortly after the Civil War, the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers ultimately evolved into the Veterans Administration. An expansive campus started in Milwaukee in 1867 was one of…

History behind bars. Our work at the state’s historic Saint Cloud facility enabled modifications needed to bring the nineteenth-century facility up to twenty-first-century standards. Construction on the Minnesota State Reformatory…