Select an Architect / Landscape Architect

A consultation with a licensed architect is required for all homeowners who apply for the Home for Generations II program. This consultation, in your home, will help to ensure that all aspects of your project have been considered and that your remodeling project will fit seamlessly with your existing home.
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Information regarding each of the participating architects is listed below.  Feel free to call or email any of the architects to ask further questions about their work before making your selection. Once you have selected your architect, call them to schedule your 2-hour at-home consultation. You will be required to pay $25 directly to the architect at the time of the consultation. The Coon Rapids Mortgage Assistance Foundation will cover the remaining cost
Carlsen and Frank Architects
Carlsen & Frank Architects LLC is a Minnesota company established in 1983 by architects Peter Carlsen, AIA and Sylvia Frank, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP. Working with our clients, we provide ideas and design options to explore, refine and develop their projects in a collaborative process. Your project will be designed to fit comfortably into its surroundings, be environmentally responsible, serve your functional needs and reflect your values. Our projects are creatively designed, well executed and have a spirit of integrity and delight. We seek to achieve a balance between project scope and budget. A well designed and successfully executed project requires attention to detail, commitment to quality and understanding of the construction process. Our success in achieving this has been recognized in a number of design awards and in appreciative repeat clients.
Contact Information
Sylvia Frank
AIA, LEED AP
524 Selby Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55102
Phone: 651-227-4576
Email
Carlsen and Frank Architects Website
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CITYDESKSTUDIO, Inc.
CITYDESKSTUDIO believes good design involves a thoughtful response to the specific desires and requirements of each individual homeowner. Our design style is to reflect our client's values and goals with a unique response that is tailored for each specific home. Our goal is to deliver a design that not only meets but exceeds expectations and that makes the most out of the homeowner's construction dollars.
Contact Information
Nate Dodge
550 Vandalia St.
#101
St. Paul, MN 55104
Phone: 651-644-1106
 Email 
CITYDESKSTUDIO's Website
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FIRM GROUND architects & engineers
We do not categorize our work by style – we work with many structures, each with a unique style born of the age in which it was constructed. By using our “Visual Listening” tool we establish the style our client prefers, and tempering that within the constraints of the existing structure, design to meet the expectations of our client.
Contact Information
Thomas P. Wasmoen, AIA, CID
Business Development & Senior Architect
275 Market Street
Suite 368
Minneapolis, MN 55405
Phone: 612-819-1835
Email
FIRM GROUND Website
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J.Sweitzer - Architects LLC
We understand that you have decided to undertake a significant investment in time and in the quality of your home life. Our responsibility as your Architect / Service Provider is to listen to you, assess your goals and objectives, be creative and informative and assist you with creating and shaping physical and emotional solutions that provide visual and functional delight! “As a simplified design philosophy I try to address the project’s program with artful and well-crafted solutions while at the same time providing direct and personal service to each client as quickly as possible
Contact Information
Jeffery R. Sweitzer
4514 Arden Avenue South
Edina, MN 55424
Phone: 612-220-3283
Email
J.Sweitzer's Website
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McMonigal Architects
At McMonigal Architects, our mission is to collaborate with homeowners to create architecture that enhances their lives. We do this by taking on our client’s vision as our own. Our process is based on listening, building trust, and thinking together to create thoughtful and unique designs. We do not specialize in a particular architectural style. Our designs are contextual, responding directly to a home’s site, history, current place in time and the personal style that each homeowner brings to their project.
Contact Information
Rosemary McMonigal, Principal
FAIA, LEED AP, CID
1227 Tyler Street NE
Suite 100
Minneapolis, MN 55413
Phone: 612-331-1244
Email
McMonigal Architects Website
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Jeff Westendorf Landscape Architect
 A Landscape Architect company.
Contact Information
Jeff Westendorf
Phone: 612-709-3943
Email 
Rock Solid Landscape and Irrigation
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