Silver Bay, MN
A planned town
on an unplanned shore.
Custom homes, lake homes, and remodeling in Silver Bay and the Shore around it — Beaver Bay, Little Marais, and the lake lots between. An hour up Highway 61, where the rock is closer to the surface and the lake sets the weather.
Building in Silver Bay
Built in the fifties,
ready for the next fifty.
Silver Bay was built almost all at once in the 1950s — a planned company town for the taconite plant, laid out on the ledge above the lake. That gives it a housing stock unlike anywhere else on the Shore: whole neighborhoods of same-era homes, sturdy but sixty-plus years old, most of them due for the additions, kitchens, windows, and envelope work that bring a mid-century house up to a modern winter.
Outside town it's classic North Shore building: bedrock at or near the surface, lake lots with direct Superior exposure, and seasonal places that need to survive being left through the winter. We engineer foundations to the rock, detail siding and flashing for the weather that comes off the open lake, and build new lake homes and cabins from Beaver Bay up past Little Marais.
What we build in Silver Bay
On the map
An hour up the Shore from Duluth.
One thing the fifties
teach you here.
A whole town built in the same decade ages in the same decade. Silver Bay's homes were solidly built, but their walls, windows, and insulation were designed for 1956 fuel prices — and a remodel that ignores the envelope just puts new finishes on an expensive-to-heat shell.
So when we open up a Silver Bay house for a kitchen, an addition, or new windows, we treat it as the chance to fix the assembly: air-seal, insulate past code minimums, and detail the exterior for lake weather. The house looks better and runs cheaper — that's the whole point of doing it once, properly.
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Silver Bay questions
Answered.
Do you travel as far as Silver Bay?
Yes. Silver Bay is about an hour up Highway 61 from our Duluth base, past Two Harbors, and we work the Shore regularly — Beaver Bay, Silver Bay, and the lake lots up toward Little Marais.
Can you remodel Silver Bay's 1950s homes?
Yes — it's a specialty fit. The town's mid-century homes are sturdy but due for envelope work, and we pair remodels and additions with air-sealing, insulation past code minimums, and exterior detailing built for lake weather.
Can you build on bedrock lots near Silver Bay?
Yes. On this stretch of the Shore the rock is often at or near the surface, so we engineer the foundation to the ledge — how the house anchors, bears, and sheds water — before anything is framed.
Do you build lake homes and cabins up here?
Yes. New lake homes, cabins, and seasonal-to-year-round conversions are a big part of our North Shore work, built and winterized to hold up when they're left empty through a Superior winter.
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