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…

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…