Old Main

Old Main is a building on the campus of Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. It was built in 1901 at a cost of $35,000, designed by the St. Paul firm of Omeyer and Thori and built by Charles F.

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Type: University building
Description: building on the campus of Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Also known as: “Old Main (1902-)”
Historically known as: “New Main”
Address: 731 South 21st Avenue

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Weisman Art Museum and Rarig Center.

Weisman Art Museum

Museum

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Weisman Art Museum is an art museum at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Founded in 1934 as University Gallery, the museum was originally housed in an upper floor of the university's Northrop Auditorium. Weisman Art Museum is situated 3,000 feet northeast of Old Main.

Rarig Center

Theater building

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The Rarig Center is a brutalist theater, television, radio, and classroom building on the University of Minnesota's campus in the West Bank neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, US. Rarig Center is situated 1,800 feet north of Old Main.

Seward Community Cafe

Restaurant

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The Seward Community Cafe is a collectively run cooperative restaurant in the Seward neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, notable for being the oldest worker-run restaurant in the United States. Seward Community Cafe is situated 1,100 feet south of Old Main.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cedar-Riverside and Seward.

Cedar-Riverside

Neighborhood

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Cedar-Riverside, also referred to as the West Bank, or simply Riverside, is a neighborhood within Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its boundaries are the Mississippi River to the north and east, Interstate 94 to the south, and Hiawatha Avenue and Interstate 35W to the west.

Seward

Neighborhood

Seward is a neighborhood in the Longfellow community of Minneapolis, Minnesota, located geographically southeast of downtown. It consists of the land bordered by the Hiawatha Avenue industrial district to the west, Minneapolis Midtown Greenway to the south, the Mississippi River to the east, and Interstate 94 to the north.

University

Neighborhood

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University is a neighborhood within the greater University community in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is almost completely occupied by the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota, hence the name.

Old Main

Categories: building and education
Location: Minneapolis, Hennepin, Twin Cities, Minnesota, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

44.96565° or 44° 57′ 56″ north

Longitude

-93.24202° or 93° 14′ 31″ west

Elevation

850 feet (259 metres)

Levels

Roof shape

hipped

Operator

Augsburg University

Open location code

86P8XQ85+75

OpenStreetMap ID

way 48814901

OpenStreetMap feature

building=university

GeoNames ID

11874185

Wikidata ID

Q7084422

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