Recent Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity:

Martens, Steve C., Architect; Authorized consulting to prepare survey and context statement
for historic Grand Forks Riverside residential neighborhood, (2005).

Martens, Steve; Faculty sponsor/advisor; Community service project for Valley City, ND
architectural assistance to develop a preservation manual and design guidelines for historic downtown commercial district, (2005).

Plenary Session Keynote lecture, S. Martens and R. Ramsay. "Buildings of North Dakota Book Project": Cultural Meaning in the Historic Architecture of the Northern Plains"; Preservation North Dakota and ND Certified Local Governments; Grand Forks, ND; (2004).

Steve C. Martens, Architect and FrozenMusic architectural collaboration.
Authorized consulting to the City of Chaska, MN for architectural assistance to develop a preservation manual and downtown design guidelines, (2003).

Martens, S. " Historic Architecture in Fargo's Renaissance Zone"; Guided lecture tour of historic architecture for the Northern Great Plains History Conference, (2003).

Martens, S. and R. Ramsay. "North Dakota's Architectural Legacy", Research paper presentation to the Society of Architecture Historians national conference; Richmond, VA; (2002).

Co-Principal Investigator (with R. Ramsay) National Endowment for Humanities grant; $8,396 salary support for the Buildings of North Dakota book project, (2001-03).

Martens, S., "Deepening the Furrow: Further Insights into Cooperative Creamery Buildings", Paper presented at the "Breaking New Ground, V" Conference, Madison, WI, (1999).

Martens, S., "Architecture: Civic & Cultural Lessons in Minnesota's Armory Construction Program", Paper presented at Northern Great Plains History Conference; Sioux Falls, SD, (1998).

Authored internet web site, “HABS Field Recording of North Dakota’s German-Russian Hutmacher Complex”, (1998). http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/gerrus/hutmacher.html

Principal Investigator for $3,800 cash grant from City of Chaska, MN;
"Research and Field Documentation of the Old Chaska School", (1998).

Martens, S. and R. Ramsay Humanities scholars. $9,917 grant from North Dakota Humanities Council, Exhibit design and guest co-curators for Plains Art Museum. "Seeking Connections/ Comparing Visions", interpretive exhibit celebrating Great Plains culture and the Museum’s award-winning, adaptively-used warehouse facility, (1996-98).

Co-Principal Investigator (with F. Yazdani) for $98,668 NSF/AMP grant; “Summer Research Opportunities for Native American Students”, (1994-97).

Co-author, paper session (with M. Yergens) "Constructing Ehly Hall: Design Exploration and Design Application." Proceedings; ACSA West Central Conference; Winnipeg, MB; 1997.

Principal Investigator for $3,000 cash grant from City of Chaska, MN;
"Research/HABS Documentation of Sugar City Cooperative Creamery”, (1997).

Invited lecture presentation, “Architecture & Local Memory; Architectural Investigation of WPA Fieldstone Buildings in West Central Minnesota”, Theodore C. Blegen Memorial Conference of the Minnesota Historical Society, (1997).

Instructor/tour leader, "Order Expressed/Order Suppressed". NDSU Continuing Education
foreign study course explored ordering principles in architecture, landscape design, and urban planning in Stockholm, Helsinki, Berlin and Prague, (1996).

Principal Investigator, $5,883 cash grant from State Historical Society of ND;
"HABS Documentation of Dunn County, ND Hutmacher Complex”, (1995).

Recent Publications:

R.Ramsay and S.Martens. Book titled, Buildings of North Dakota, part of the “Buildings of the United States” series, (co-authored with Ron Ramsay), Society of Architectural Historians and Oxford University Press (pending, 2006).

S.Martens. Book chapter titled, “Springtime; Architecture”, for pending book North Dakota’s Prairie Churches. Isern, Thomas (ed.). (Fargo: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies and Preservation North Dakota; projected for 2006.)

S.Martens and R.Ramsay. Book chapter “Architecture”, in A. Rees (ed.) The Great Plains Region; Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures. (Westwood, CT: Greenwood Press; 2004); pp. 1-32.

Book article titled, "Brick Masonry Architecture", in D. Wishart (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press; 2004.)

Book article titled, "Cemetery Architecture" (co-authored with Nancy Volkman), in D. Wishart (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press; 2004.)

Research cited, in Conzen, Kathleen Neils. Germans in Minnesota (“People of Minnesota” book series), St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press; 2003. Citations pp. 56-57, p.92 (note 52).

Author; Martens, Steve, with Earl Stewart. (for the Fargo Park Board)
National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) nomination for
Manning Memorial Shelter/ Edgewood Golf Course Clubhouse, 2001.

Book article titled, "Rural Architecture", in Gary A. Goreham (ed.) Encyclopedia of Rural America: The Land and People. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Publishing; 1997).

Citations, in Peterson, Fred W. Building Community, Keeping the Faith.
St. Paul; Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1998. Citations p. 74 (note 23), p.121 (note 18), p.14 (note 22), bibliography (p.188).

Citations, in Beedle, Peggy Lee and Geoffry Gysrisco (eds.). The Farm Landscape. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1996. (S. Martens cited pp. 51, 162).

Authored book review of William Tishler (ed.) Midwestern Landscape Architecture (Urbana: U. of Illinois Press; 2000); in North Dakota History quarterly journal (v. 68:3; 2001).

Authored book review of Randall, Gregory; America's Original G.I. Town; Park Forest, Illinois. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press; 2000) for the digital on-line journal New Deal; (D.Danbom et al.; eds.); May 2000.

Authored book review of Fred Peterson's Building Community, Keeping the Faith. (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1998), in Minnesota History journal; v.56/7 (Fall 1999), p. 404.