2021 Award Winners

Adaptive Reuse
Simon Warehouse

The Simon Warehouse Lofts are 65 apartments located in the nearly century old Moorhead Storage and Transfer Co. warehouse. The building was designed in the Commercial style by architect J. Howard Hess in 1922. It is one of the few surviving buildings located in Moorhead's wholesale district.

The warehouse is significant for its association with the potato industry, an important economic enterprise in the Red River Valley. When the building was constructed, it was the largest such facility in the region, capable of storing 400 boxcar loads of potatoes. It was built by potato magnate Leo J. Wright for $100,000 and hailed in the Moorhead Weekly News as "one of the biggest things that ever came to Moorhead,"

Preservation Award
734 11 St N Moorhead

This cape cod style home located in the Robert Asp neighborhood was built in 1932. This style of home became popular in the early 20th century with the resurgence of colonial revival. The home has many of defining features of this style: central door, dormer windows, shingle exterior, and a steeply pitch roof.

Complementary Addition
1362 2 St N Fargo

Emil Brant built this home in 1928 for himself and his wife, Alma. Located in the North Side Fargo Builder’s Residential Historic District, it has typical Tudor Revival characteristics: a steeply pitched gable roof, a large chimney and a stucco exterior.

Later owners, Zoe Y. and John D. Paulson remodeled the first floor and added an extended kitchen in 1956. According to Zoe Paulson, the 1957 tornado “nearly totaled” the house, leaving a large hole in the stairwell wall from a flying roof. Mary Struck and Larry Peterson purchased the home in December 2001.

In 2018, they began consulting with architect Joan Vorderbruggen to design a new entry and mudroom at the rear of the home. Construction started in May 2019 and completed in October.