Fall Tour Day 2021: Cabin Culture! – A Virtual Road Trip – Sunday, October 10, 2021; 1:30pm CDT
This year’s Docomomo Fall Tour 2021 will virtually cover hundreds of miles across Minnesota and Wisconsin to feature vacation properties designed by Close Associates, Ralph Rapson, Milo Thompson, Bruce Abrahamson and more. It is free for Docomomo members, only $15 for non-member households.
The tour will be visiting six sites, including the fabulous Naniboujou Lodge in Grand Marais, two Close designs, Ralph Rapson’s Glass Cube, four cabins built by architect friends on shared land, a cabin on Lake Vermillion accessible only by boat, and a post-modernist design by Milo Thompson inspired in part by Norwegian stave churches.
Docomomo’s Mary Dahlman Begley describes it like this:
For the past one hundred years, “cabin culture” has become a dominant trait of Minnesotan identity. For many people growing up in Minnesota, remembering a childhood “up north” conjures pleasant images of pine-ringed lakes and a cozy cabin. The phenomenon of owning or visiting a cabin in the upper Midwest is widespread and did not happen by accident. Cabin culture is the byproduct of industrial pursuits, the goal of postwar regional boosters, and, every so often, the precise conditions for exceptional modern architecture.
This study highlights modernist projects that represent different ideas in cabin culture. The modernist cabin provides access to nature, and, through historic context, demonstrates ideas about gathering and the environment. This study traces modernism through cabin architecture to highlight locations from the DOCOMOMO US/MN Minnesota Modern Registry.​
Sunday, October 10; 1:30pm CDT
Docomomo members:Â Free Event
Non-member households: $15
