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3 unusual facts about University Avenue


Campus Threads

In February 2009 Campus Threads will officially change its name to University Avenue (University Ave for short).

Hotel Roberts

Hotel Roberts was a historic hotel, built in 1882 on University Avenue in Provo, Utah.

UC Theater

The UC Theatre was a movie theater on University Avenue near Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, California, known for having a revival house presentation of films, from the 1970s until its closing.


505 Dundas

At Ossington Avenue, it turns eastward and passes through Toronto's original Chinatown and goes by the Art Gallery of Ontario before meeting up with the St. Patrick subway station at University Avenue.

Banco Comercial Português

These branches continue to operate as specialty branches to the Portuguese including Azorean communities in Toronto, Ontario, except the Dundas Street West and University Avenue branch, which has turned towards the Chinese community.


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Joseph Kiselewski

His bronze Bust of Sylvanus Thayer, 1966, is in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, Bronx Community College/CUNY, on University Avenue and West 181st Street, as is his bronze Bust of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1970.

Las Cruces Convention Center

It is located on the corner of University Avenue and El Paseo Road on the New Mexico State University Campus.

Minnesota State Highway 47

Highway 47 was originally an extension of State Highway 56; which ran from southern Minnesota to Hampton; and then was concurrent with U.S. Highway 52 into downtown Saint Paul; then along University Avenue in both Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

At the southern terminus of Highway 47 in northeast Minneapolis, "University Avenue" further extends itself into Saint Paul (as Ramsey County Road 34), ending at Lafayette Road.

Olga Volchkova

She became artistic director for Workspot, a now defunct start-up and contracting house near University Avenue in Palo Alto.

Summit Brewing Company

By 1998, the company's beer production had exceeded the capacity of the original University Avenue brewery, and a new brewery was built on the west end of St. Paul, overlooking the Mississippi River.

Temple Society of Concord

The present classical-style sanctuary at the corner of Madison Street and University Avenue, with an attached social hall, was designed by Syracuse-based architect Alfred Taylor and New York-based consulting architect Arnold W. Brunner.