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America’s Top Architects: A Prairie House By Wisconsin’s Johnsen Schmaling Architects

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02.05.2026

Firm Name: Johnsen Schmaling Architects

Principal: Brian Johnsen, Sebastian Schmaling

Headquarters: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Accolades: Forbes Architecture’s “America’s Top 200 Residential Architects,” 2025; Forbes Architecture’s “America’s Best-in-State Residential Architects,” 2025

House Name: Kettle Moraine House

Location: Campbellsport, Wisconsin

Site Specifics: More than 50 acres of restored native prairie

Area & Layout: 3,342 square feet, 3 BR, 3 BA

Architectural Photographer: John J. Macaulay

wenty thousand years ago, glaciers plowed through Eastern Wisconsin, forming a tapestry of hills, ridges and depressions known as the Kettle Moraine. Asked to design a house on a parcel of prairie land in the area, architect Sebastian Schmaling took his cue from nature, dividing the home into three parallel strips that echo the strands of earth........

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