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Univ of Minnesota, 4-27-2009

In April 2009, I traveled to Minneapolis for the national conference of the American Planning Association. I participated in three mobile workshops — getting away from the sessions held at the convention center to see real world examples of city planning in Minnesota. The best of these workshops took us to the "U" to see "adaptive reuse." The University is aggressively saving many of its older buildings, preserving the exteriors, and reusing the interiors for 21st Century college education. This is a campus I can still recognize; and while the enrollment of 51,000 students is double what it was when I attended (1950-55), I felt comfortable and quite at home. On a satellite photo of the campus (courtesy Google), I overlaid a red line to show the path of our walking tour. The slides follow that path through the campus.
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Looking northeast along Pleasant Street SE to the off-campus intersection of 15th Avenue SE at University Ave SE
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Looking northeast along Pleasant Street SE to the off-campus intersection of 15th Avenue SE at University Ave SE

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  • Jones Hall Detail, 1901
  • South side of Folwell Hall (center), 1907. This was the locus for science, literature, and the arts (SLA) when I attended the U. The north side of the building fronts on University Avenue SE.
  • Folwell Hall, (Clarence Johnston, 1907)
  • Folwell Hall details, 1907
  • Folwell Hall Gargoyles, recently restored.
  • Looking northeast along Pleasant Street SE to the off-campus intersection of 15th Avenue SE at University Ave SE
  • This statue of Governor John Pillsbury (1900) is directly across the street from the Greek revival Burton Hall, 1894. Burton (not shown) was the main library until 1924. During my tenure, it boasted a major auditorium. Seems I was always trekking over there for lectures.
  • A mirrored rock (Taconite from Northern Minnesota) on the lawn of what was Mining and Geology and is now Education Sciences.
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