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News from September 2024

See all upcoming Libraries events — including our featured events, workshops, and exhibits — on the UMN Twin Cities Events Calendar.

Firefighter stands in ruins of burned down building.

Old Main destroyed by fire, 120 years later

A retrospective on the University of Minnesota’s Old Main building, which was engulfed by a fire on September 24, 1904, and within two hours, was reduced to nothing but walls and embers.