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…

Controversy has surrounded the construction of every bridge over the Saint Croix River between Stillwater, Minnesota, and Houlton, Wisconsin. When a new bridge was proposed in the 1960s, though, no…

Built shortly after World War II, Hungry Horse’s massive concrete-arch dam is a tribute to mid-twentieth-century engineering. The project’s construction drew thousands of people to this isolated area near Glacier…

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…

Innovative in 1901, the Electric Steel Grain Elevator complex was obsolete, vacant, and an attractive nuisance 112 years later. We documented the property before it was demolished and developed interpretation…

Located at the heart of the University of Minnesota’s Minneapolis campus, Northrop Mall has a significant and distinguishable landscape that embodies the distinctive characteristics of a national period in campus…

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…

The renovation of the NorShor Theatre is catalyzing a renaissance in downtown Duluth, Minnesota. Hess Roise helped the project get historic tax credits, a key part of the funding for…