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Stay at one of the Finest Hotels near the Mayo Clinic

Our hotel in Rochester, MN is located just minutes away from the heart of downtown. The hotel's location near the Mayo Clinic is also just five miles from the Rochester International Airport (RST) and a number of popular attractions. While staying at our hotel, tour Mayowood Mansion, settle down with coffee and a book at the Barnes & Noble Chateau Theatre or stroll through the Rochester Art Center. Enjoy a convenient location when you stay at our hotel in Rochester, MN.

During your stay, enjoy these local attractions:

  • Assisi Heights (7.2 miles)
    Visitors to this convent are welcome to tour the beautiful gardens at this 100-acre center founded in the 1870s.
    Phone: (507) 280-2180 
  • Barnes & Noble Chateau Theater (6.8 miles)
    Barnes and Noble has remodeled this former vaudeville theater and turned it into a very impressive bookstore. Phone: (507) 288-3848 
  • IBM Rochester Facility (8.9 miles)
    Our hotel in Rochester, MN is only a short drive from IBM's sprawling Rochester campus.
    Phone: (507) 253-4011
  • Mayo Civic Center (5 miles)
    Southern Minnesota's largest event facility hosts many different types of events each year.
    Phone: (800) 422-2199
  • Mayo Clinic (6.6 miles)
    This world-class medical institution treats over half a million patients a year. Our hotel's location near the Mayo Clinic is the perfect place to stay when visiting this hospital founded by William and Charles Mayo.
    Phone: (507) 284-2111
  • Mayowood Mansion (6 miles)
    The former home of the family of Dr. Charles Mayo is now a historic house museum listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
    Phone: (507) 282-9447
  • Rochester Art Center (5.2 miles)
    The Rochester Art Center's desire is to cultivate an appreciation of modern art through creative education and engaging presentations.
    Phone: (507) 282-8629

About Rochester

Named after Rochester, NY, this city in southeastern Minnesota's Zumbro River Valley had rather humble beginnings, starting out as a mid-19th century stopping point for westward-heading wagons. In 1857, Rochester vied with nearby Marion to become the county seat and, in the end, lost by a questionably slim margin (both sides are said to have cheated). Nevertheless, the town was incorporated a year later, and in subsequent years surpassed Marion in both size and importance, eventually taking over the role of county seat. In August of 1883, a tornado ravaged Rochester, leaving doctors and nurses overwhelmed with injuries and casualties. Dr. William Mayo and his sons were called in to help treat patients; thus began the city's long association with the Mayo Clinic, whose concept of multi-specialty group practice forever changed the medical profession. However, the town is not just an overgrown medical community. It has also attracted a wide range of professionals in various fields and annually ranks among the top ten most livable cities in the United States. Most notably, IBM maintains a strategic center in Rochester that's responsible for the design, development and manufacture of (among other products) the company's e-Server iSeries. Indeed, for a city its size, Rochester offers a wealth of leisure and cultural opportunities for the entire family. A highlight is mid-summer's RochesterFest, a terrific celebration that includes live music, street dances, a lumberjack competition, and a bike race.

Did you know?

Adventurer, novelist, and Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway was admitted to the Mayo Clinic in 1960. Diagnosed as suffering from depression, he underwent two months of electric shock therapy. Unfortunately, the treatments were not successful, for in July of 1961 the man who wrote such masterpieces as "A Farewell to Arms" and "The Sun Also Rises" returned to his Ketchum, Idaho, home and committed suicide.

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City of Rochester Rochester Civic Music Rochester Recreation Center Mayo Civic Center Mayo Clinic KTTC TV Rochester Orchestra & Chorale Olmsted County Historical Society Rochester Community Rochester Art Center Rochester Honkers Baseball National Volleyball Center

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