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Dania Hall (Minneapolis)
Dania Hall was a cultural center and performing arts space in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis for over one hundred years. Completed in 1886, the building was destroyed by an accidental fire in 2000 at the outset of an extensive renovation project.〔''Swedes in the Twin Cities'' edited by Philip K. Anderson and Dag Blanck, (St. Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001) pp. 173 - 197.〕
==A popular meeting place==
The five-story building, located at 427 Cedar Avenue South, was designed by the Norwegian-born architect Carl F. Struck for Society Dania, an organization founded by Danish immigrants. The large auditorium making up the third and fourth floors included a proscenium stage and horseshoe balcony. Its main floor could accommodate up to six hundred chairs or be cleared for dancing. There were offices on the second floor while the ground level and basement were for commercial retail use. A multi-purpose facility, Dania Hall served as a gathering place for Danes, Swedes, Norwegians and the larger community. It hosted banquets, bazaars, concerts, dances, plays and evenings of Scandinavian vaudeville.〔
The Norwegian author Knut Hamsun, who lived in Minneapolis during the 1880s, gave a series of literary lectures at the newly built Dania Hall. His farewell address there in 1888 included material that would later appear in the book: ''Fra det moderne Amerikas aandsliv'' (The Cultural Life of Modern America).〔''My Minneapolis'' by Carl G. O. Hansen, (Minneapolis: Standard Press, 1956) pp. 99 - 109.〕〔''The Cultural Life of Modern America'' by Knut Hamsun, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969).〕
In the 1920s and 1930s many Scandinavian-American artists performed at Dania Hall. Among them were the Olson Sisters,〔''Yust for Fun'' by Eleonora and Ethel Olson, (Minneapolis: Eggs Press, 1979).〕 Olle i Skratthult, Ted Johnson and his Midnight Suns and Thorstein Skarning and his Norwegian Hillbillies.〔 The Snoose Boulevard Festival, which ran from 1972 through 1977, brought back the music and humor of that period with performances at the Cedar Theater, Coffeehouse Extemporé, New Riverside Café and Mixed Blood Theatre. Dania Hall, chief symbol of the area's Scandinavian past, flew a banner from Sweden from its tower during the event but was not used as a venue due to the poor condition of the building.〔(''Seward Profile'' April 2005. )〕
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