Guggenheim Building

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Guggenheim
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The Guggenheim Building in July 2024
Guggenheim Building
General information
Architectural styleModern
Location Rochester, Minnesota
Coordinates 44°01′15″N92°28′01″W / 44.02083°N 92.46694°W / 44.02083; -92.46694
Height258 feet
Technical details
Floor count21 stories
Design and construction
Architecture firm Ellerbe Associates [1]
Main contractor Mayo Clinic
Other information
Public transit accessAiga bus trans.svg RPT

The Guggenheim is a 20-story building in Rochester, Minnesota owned by Mayo Clinic. Many of the floors hold research labs. The building is connected to the subway system and physically conjoined with the Hilton Building. On the first floor there is a plaque for Philip Showalter Hench and Edward Calvin Kendall, the Mayo doctors who won a Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

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References

  1. Minnesota Modern Registry, Docomomo US MN, accessed April 15, 2023.