Projects
The Stillwater Lift Bridge and the Saint Croix Crossing: A History
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…
Hungry Horse in Print
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…
Water Power Park
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…
Electric Steel Elevator
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…
Northrop Mall Historic District
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…
Lowertown Ballpark
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…
Zablocki Veterans Administration Medical Center
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…
Minnesota Correctional Facility-Saint Cloud
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…
NorShor Theatre Tax Credit Rehabilitation
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…
Hungry Horse Project
President Harry Truman threw a switch that ceremonially started power generation at the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Hungry Horse Project in Montana in October1953, and the hard-working facility has been…