St. Olaf College is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. It was founded in 1874 by a group of Norwegian-American pastors and farmers led by Pastor Bernt Julius Muus. The college is named after the King and the Patron Saint Olaf II of Norway and is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Old Main
Steensland Hall in 2015
Herman Amberg Preus, (1825–1894), a key figure in organizing the Norwegian Synod.
1912 stained glass window honoring St. Olaf in the college chapel
Northfield is a city in Dakota and Rice counties in the State of Minnesota. It is mostly in Rice County, with a small portion in Dakota County. The population was 20,790 at the 2020 census. Northfield is 40 miles south of the downtowns of Minneapolis and St. Paul and is an exurb of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area.
Downtown Northfield, September 2010
The Ames Mill on the Cannon River
The First National Bank in the Scriver Building in Northfield, Minnesota, site of the attempted robbery
The Scriver Building in Northfield, Minnesota