The Glensheen Estate, built by mining magnate Chester Congdon and his wife, Clara, is well known for its historic mansion. The estate’s setting on the rocky, wooded shore of Lake…

The Baker Importing Company, now the Smyth Lofts, is one of the smaller historic warehouses in the Minneapolis Warehouse Historic District. Hess Roise led the historic tax credit process for…

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…

Euclid View Flats were constructed in 1895 in the up-and-coming Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood on Saint Paul’s east side. The apartment building joined a growing collection of houses and apartments that…

The Canopy by Hilton Minneapolis Mill District brings new life to a pair of historic buildings in the East Town neighborhood of Minneapolis. Hess Roise managed the historic design review…

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…

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the lumber industry transformed Stillwater into a bustling community. The Saint Croix River crossing was first served by a ferry then, by…

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…