LUXURY HOMES DESIGN&LIVING
Boiler room fireplace - Chris Hawley Architects / Mutchler, Bartram Architects Furniture - McNeal & Friends Concrete floor refinishing - Crow Wing Concrete Custom Charcoal aluminum frame windows - Custom Window Co. by Wausau brand, Denver, C.O. Contractor - Mutchler, Bartram Architects, PC Structural engineer - Solien & Larson Engineering, P.C. Crestron Roller Shades and Smart Home media system - Smart Home Technologies Custom door handles - P2 Industries, Chris Hawley Architects Custom tech lighting - Tech Lighting / Border States Electric Steel lights - Red River Fabricators
Prior to renovating the Fargo Laundry building, the McGovern's lived in a traditional two-story brick house in Oakcreek and had to be bought out due to the flood. "We really just wanted to move downtown, but we were just looking," said Rondi McGovern. "I wasn't real crazy about the idea, but my husband fell in love with it because of the garage and he really had the vision. I thought it might be too big of a project. We actually debated whether or not to put condos down on this level and somehow break it up into a couple different residences. We took a couple months to try and figure it out, but, in the end, we decided to just do it all." Both successful business owners, Rondi McGovern owns the interior design firm and store McNeal & Friends along with her sister, Shelly Neal in Downtown Fargo. Keith McGovern is President of the third-generation, family-owned R.D. Offutt Company.
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About the Fargo Laundry Building
The McGovern's home is better known as the Fargo Laundry Co., which was built in 1923. In 1987, the Fargo Laundry building was sold to Leef Brothers Inc., a second-generation family business from Minneapolis.
Inspired by the original boiler room in the basement, CHA designed the industrial look of the great room's floorto-ceilings wood-burning fireplace with the help of MBA's construction expertise.