This tour has 29 homes that cover a wide variety of architectural styles, designed for each client. You will see simple to avant-garde and modest to generous budgets; a cross-section of lifestyles from lakeside to city loft to farmhouses; and functional design decisions in material and citing meant to make the most of materials and land.
After a quick tour online of these homes, you can access the tour program guide and map and plan your own route to tour the homes.
The homes are listed from West to East and numbered accordingly on the map.
2. 21840 Byron Cir., Greenwood, Minnesota
Charles Stinson Architects
Charles Stinson, AIA
Builder: Streeter & Assoc. and Coen + Partners
Designed as a northern summer
retreat for a retired couple from
Florida, this home has since
become their year-round residence
because of it sleek aesthetic, light-filled
living spaces, and panoramic views of the
lake and woods. To provide those views
and capture light, the architect “floated”
the main level of the 3,300-square-foot
home—a single composition of white
horizontals and window ribbons bisected
by gray chimneys and black window framing—
on top of a glass box. Inside the
lower-level are a guest suite, sauna, media
room, study, and artist’s studio. A wraparound
terrace provides unobstructed
views, whatever the season.