Wild Rice Retreat Center

Kraus-Anderson completed Wild Rice Retreat Center, a year-round wellness retreat center that supports artistic expression in nature and nurtures individual creativity and human development. Wild Rice Retreat is located on the shores of Lake Superior just outside Bayfield, Wis. Developed by Heidi Zimmer of Superior Living Arts, LLC and designed by Duluth-based Salmela Architects, the project integrates the new clustered villages into a 114-acre natural environment. The $6 million project consists of 15 modern Scandanavian-designed, tiny house lodging units, four Treehouses, which are two-story units with huge windows and cantilevered space, containing four bedrooms, baths and kitchen, a sauna house, and a new classroom and yoga studio. The wellness retreat center features meeting and event spaces and has an expansive kitchen, gardens, winebar and nourishment program for serving retreat guests healthy meals. Wild Rice Retreat is the first wellness center of its kind in the Midwest.