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Designed by Leroy Buffington and Harvey Ellis in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, Pillsbury Hall at the University of Minnesota opened in 1889 and is part of the National Register-listed Old Campus Historic District.
Close-up, statue of John S. Pillsbury, 1914-1915. Photograph by Charles J. Hibbard.
Statue of John S. Pillsbury, 1904. Photograph by Sweet.
Governor John S. Pillsbury and friends at the State Fair, c.1900.
Mahala Fisk Pillsbury with her mother, daughter, and grandson, c.1888. Photograph by Arthur B. Rugg.
Governor John S. Pillsbury, c.1888. Photograph by Arthur B. Rugg.
Official portrait of Governor John S. Pillsbury, 1887. Painted by artist John Antrobus.
John S. Pillsbury Home, 1005 Fifth Street Southeast, Minneapolis, c.1885. Photograph by William H. Jacoby.
A wood-framed, glass-plated sign that hung in the Minnesota governor's office from 1876 to 1884.
John Sargent Pillsbury, c.1865. Photograph by Whitney's Gallery.