University of St. Thomas uses stone from Minnesota quarry

MANKATO, Minn. — The University of St. Thomas is built on tradition.

“Since 1931, it started with our first building on campus, Aquinas Hall, which was our first Kasota stone building that we had on campus and it’s still in operation today,” said Jim Brummer, the vice president of facilities management at the University of St. Thomas.

For nearly 100 years, the university has been using this stone on almost every campus building. They used Kasota stone to build their downtown Minneapolis location and the new Lee and Penny Anderson Arena where the university’s hockey and basketball team will play.

“Standing you couldn’t tell if that was an academic building or an athletic building and that’s part of what we’re trying to create. If you can’t tell what kind of a building it is, doesn’t real