Augustana Academy
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Old Main
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Old Main on the Augustana Academy campus, December 2010
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| Location: | Lawler and 2nd Sts., Canton, South Dakota |
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| Coordinates: | 43°18′13″N 96°34′41″W / 43.30361°N 96.57806°WCoordinates: 43°18′13″N 96°34′41″W / 43.30361°N 96.57806°W |
| Architectural style: | Romanesque |
| NRHP Reference#: | 85003093 [1] |
| Added to NRHP: | December 2, 1985 |
Augustana Academy was an educational institution in Canton, South Dakota.
The Norwegian Augustana Synod was established in 1870. In that year, the Synod began an academy called the Marshall Academy in Marshall, Wisconsin. In 1881, the academy was moved to Beloit, Iowa. In 1884 Augustana College moved from Beloit in Lyon County, Iowa to Canton, South Dakota. It included Augustana Academy for high school students.
In 1917 the Norwegian Synod, Hauge Synod and the United Norwegian Lutheran Church in America merged to become the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America. The new synod combined Augustana College with Lutheran Normal School in Sioux Falls, some 25 miles away. The Normal School was from the Norwegian Synod. Augustana Academy, no longer a division of the college, remained in Canton. Augustana Academy closed in 1971. Since Augustana Academy closed, its records are held by Augustana College in Sioux Falls.[2].
[edit] Notable alumni
- Ernest O. Lawrence, pioneer in nuclear medicine. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the first nuclear cyclotron. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are named in his honor.
- Ole Rølvaag, well known for his writings on the Norwegian American immigrant experience on the Great Plain. Among other writings, he was author of Giants in the Earth.
[edit] References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ Link to Augustana College as successor to Augustana Academy
[edit] Other sources
- Nelson, E. Clifford, and Fevold, Eugene L. The Lutheran Church among Norwegian-Americans: a history of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1960)
