A real house on an acre near Fargo, built to last.
Northstead at Colfax is a small, design-controlled neighborhood about half an hour south of Fargo, for people who want room to breathe and a house built to a standard that holds.
You know the feeling of a place that's right. The old streets in Fargo with the big trees and the century-old houses have it. So does the family farmstead, where the farmhouse still stands because someone built it to last. You've probably felt it somewhere on a trip too, in a neighborhood you didn't want to leave. None of that is luck. Those places feel the way they do because they were built with care and held to it. That's what we're building here, on purpose.
The standard
Most acreage around here gets sold with no design control at all. Build whatever, next to whatever. Some of it even gets sold as luxury, right up until a metal shouse goes up beside a vinyl rambler and the word stops meaning much. The pricier subdivisions closer to Fargo aren't the fix either. They have rules, the rules just miss what matters. That's how you get a million-dollar house wearing vinyl on three sides, slider windows, and four garage stalls swallowing the front.
Northstead works the other way. The covenants here govern what actually decides whether a house holds together and holds its value: real materials, massing, the proportion of the windows, where the garage sits. No vinyl. No asphalt shingles. Traditional forms, with room to make a home your own inside them. The point isn't to make every house the same. It's that what your neighbor builds protects what you put in instead of dragging on it.
Build it your way
You're not locked to a builder here. Bring your own, build it yourself, or hire our in-house crew, Endure Buildings. Some developments make you use their preferred builder. We don't. What we do is hold whoever builds it to the standard, so the freedom doesn't cost you a coherent street.
And if working the standard out sounds like a hassle, it isn't. Ask Endure's design team a covenant question anytime, and the first hour of plan review is free. They can carry a plan the rest of the way, and Endure Buildings can build it. The crew runs lean and knows the standard cold, because the same people wrote it, so building with us tends to come in under the bigger names and comes out right.
On-site septic comes with the territory out here, and it's the part people dread, since a mound system is a mystery if you've never dealt with one. We've worked with the people who handle them, the designer and the installers who've bid mound work around here. So whoever ends up building it, you, your own GC, or us, gets their contacts and a clear set of steps instead of a blank page.
Colfax
Colfax sits a couple of miles off I-29, about thirty minutes from Fargo and Wahpeton both, close enough that getting to the interstate stays easy when the weather turns. City water is being run to the development, and fiber's already in. The Richland #44 school is a few minutes away, and a local farmer, Darrel Hendrickson, left the district millions in his will, so every graduate is eligible for a $10,000 scholarship. For a town this size it does a lot: the smallest public swimming pool in North Dakota, ball fields on the west edge, an ice rink come winter, and The 44 Venue, a new event center up the road that hosts weddings and concerts. New construction here qualifies for North Dakota's two-year property tax break on up to $150,000 of a home's value. The lots sit on open prairie, with the kind of sky you don't get in town.
Financing
Finance this however you like, with whatever bank you want. Worth knowing: Colfax sits in a USDA-eligible area, so if you meet the income and property limits, that can mean a loan with no money down. We can point you to a lender who handles those, and another for conventional financing, whichever one fits. The money side isn't something you have to sort out on your own.
Lots are for sale now
Lots are for sale right now. Email us and we'll send what's open, the plat, and the standard. Pre-approved plans are coming soon, so if you'd rather build off one that's already drawn and priced, tell us and we'll put you on the list for first look.