The Mayo Civic Center is a multi-purpose convention center and event facility in Rochester, Minnesota . It was home to the Rochester Mustangs ice hockey team and various professional basketball franchises. It is also notable for being one of the filming locations for the music video of " Wanted Dead or Alive " by Bon Jovi . Adjacent to the arena is Mayo Park and the Rochester Art Center.
15-473: The original building was built in 1938, as a gift to the city by Dr. Charles H. Mayo and Mayo Properties Association (now Mayo Clinic ) and has been expanded and renovated several times over the years. It consists of a ballroom (40,000 sq. ft.) used for conferences and galas, an arena (5,200 seats) used for concerts, wrestling, and basketball, an auditorium (3,000 seats) used for concerts, performing arts, and sporting events, an exhibit hall for consumer shows and
30-508: A Kiwanis, and was active in numerous other professional, civic and social clubs. Mayo retired in 1930 and died of pneumonia in 1939 in Chicago , Illinois. His two sons Charles William Mayo and Joseph Graham Mayo both worked at the clinic. Joseph Graham Mayo was killed in November 1936 in an accident when a train hit his car killing him and his hunting dog, Floosie. Mayo and his dog were buried in
45-590: A theatre for the arts (1,084 fixed seat theatre). The Mayo Civic Center also has 23 meeting rooms/suites varying in size. In 2017, the Mayo Civic Center nearly doubled in size by adding a convention center to its existing footprint. The $ 84 million expansion features a 40,000-square-foot ballroom (can divide into three sections), 16 meeting rooms/suites, and two executive boardrooms. The expanded center hosts medical and technical conferences, large business meetings and healthcare summits. The Mayo Civic Center acts as
60-584: Is used for performing arts as well as concert events. Shows like "The Chocolate Factory" and 1940's Big Band Swing Revue " In the Mood " and other arts events have taken place here, as well as Broadway shows such as Rent . Every two years, the University of Minnesota Marching Band performs its indoor concert at the venue in addition to its traditional series at Northrop Auditorium in Minneapolis . It annually hosts
75-539: The WWE Raw , Smackdown and ECW appearing. TNA has hosted events here as well. Notable events held the Civic Center are Disney Live , Elmo Live , Blue Man Group and other events. The Harlem Globetrotters and artists, such as KISS , Chris Young , Little Big Town , Sheryl Crow , Ladysmith Black Mambazo , Bob Dylan , Hinder , Celtic Woman & Disturbed , have performed in the arena. The Mayo Civic Auditorium
90-814: The Minnesota State Medical Association (1905–1906), President of the Section on Surgery of the International Congress on Tuberculosis (1908–1909), and President of the Clinical Congress of Surgeons of North America (1911–1912). In 1913, he became a Regent and Fellow of the American College of Surgeons , serving as its president from 1923 to 1925. He was President of the American Medical Association in 1916–1917, President of
105-598: The NYWA Youth Wrestling State Championships which is one of the biggest wrestling tournaments in the United States . It hosted the NCAA Women's Division II Basketball Championship in 2001 and 2002. 44°01′21″N 92°27′31″W / 44.02247°N 92.458599°W / 44.02247; -92.458599 Charles Horace Mayo Charles Horace Mayo (July 19, 1865 – May 26, 1939)
120-612: The Section on General Surgery of the Pan-American Medical Association from 1932 to 1934, and of the Minnesota Public Health Association from 1932 to 1936, becoming its Honorary President in 1936. During World War I, Mayo and his brother served as chief surgical consultants for the U.S. Army. Commissioned a colonel in 1917, in 1921 he was commissioned brigadier general in the Officers' Reserve Corps of
135-728: The U.S. Army, and subsequently held rank as brigadier general in the Army Medical Department (from 1926) and as brigadier general in the Auxiliary Army of the United States from 1931. From 1919 to 1936, when he retired, he was a member of the Senate of the University of Minnesota and professor of surgery in the UMN medical school. Charles H. Mayo was engaged in numerous civic organizations. He
150-516: The foremost medical treatment and research institutions in the world. Within Mayo's lifetime, it registered one million patients. The idea of medical specialization was developed by this group of medical pioneers. A close and enduring relationship between the Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota Medical School developed. C. H. Mayo specialized in surgery of the thyroid and nervous system . He
165-526: The main place for meeting and events of the Mayo Clinic , as it plays host to medical lectures and company gatherings. The American Wrestling Association held a weekly television broadcast for both syndication, and cable on ESPN , from 1989-1990. Other promotions like World Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling also held shows here prior to their demise. The Civic Center recently has hosted World Wrestling Entertainment house shows with
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#1732858714044180-535: Was Augustus Stinchfield, who was hired by William Worrall Mayo. Once in place as a partner in the private practice, W. W. Mayo retired at age 73. The private practice became the not-for-profit Mayo Clinic in 1919. At that point, the remaining partners went on salary, and the Mayo Properties Association was established. The world's first "integrated group practice" was established by the seven partners and staff. The Mayo Clinic came to be regarded as one of
195-518: Was a professor of surgery at the University of Minnesota, active there and nationally in both Alpha Kappa Kappa and Sigma Xi fraternities. Charles Mayo's wife was Edith Graham, of Rochester, MN, whom he married in 1893. He belonged to the Episcopal church, and was a Freemason and member of Rochester Lodge #21 of the Grand Lodge of Minnesota, AF&AM, a Knight Templar, Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner,
210-497: Was also responsible for the clinic's ophthalmic patients until 1908. He and early partners insisted on sterile conditions in the operating room, and that was one of many factors that contributed to the medical practice's early surgical successes. Charles H. Mayo was professionally active in numerous medical and academic bodies. He was successively President of the Western Surgical Association (1904–1905), President of
225-780: Was an American medical practitioner and was one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic along with his brother William James Mayo , Augustus Stinchfield , Christopher Graham, Edward Star Judd Jr. , Henry Stanley Plummer , Melvin Millet, and Donald Balfour . Charles graduated with his M.D. from the medical school of Northwestern University in 1888 and after postgraduate studies at the New York Polyclinic Medical School joined his father, William Worrall Mayo , and older brother, William James Mayo , in their private medical practice in Rochester, Minnesota . The Mayos' first partner
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