Mayo Clinic Lighting Program
The Plummer Building on the Mayo Clinic campus in Rochester, MN is named for scientist, physician, and engineer Dr. Henry S. Plummer, whose tenure spanned Mayo's formative years from 1900 until his death in 1936. His genius and energy were essential to Mayo's early success and development. The tower at the top of the Plummer Building houses Mayo Clinic’s Carillon. The Carillon Tower is one of Mayo Clinic’s and the City of Rochester’s most prominent and recognizable architectural features and is beautifully illuminated each night.
With increasing frequency, disease-specific nonprofit organizations have requested that Mayo Clinic buildings be lighted in a specific color to heighten awareness of their cause.
Non-profit health and wellness-related organizations have the opportunity to request that Mayo Clinic buildings be lit with a specific color(s) to heighten awareness of medical conditions or disease-specific causes.
To Request Special Event Lighting
Campus lighting displays are featured at Mayo Clinic campuses at the following locations:
Rochester, Minnesota
Phoenix, Arizona
Jacksonville, Florida
Mayo Clinic Health System sites across Wisconsin and Minnesota
Complete a lighting application
Purpose & Objectives
Guidelines for the lighting of Mayo Clinic buildings ensure fairness, transparency, and consistency with Mayo’s strategic mission. Decisions are based upon adherence to the following objectives.
Further Mayo Clinic’s mission by enhancing public awareness of medical conditions and diseases
Reinforce the Carillon dedication to the soldiers of the United States Military
Acknowledge official public days of mourning
Building Lighting Schedule
October 1 - Breast Cancer Awareness, pink
October 7 - Trigeminal Neuralgia Awareness Day, teal
October 13 - Indigenous Peoples’ Day, orange, yellow and turquoise
October 14 - Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day, green, pink and teal
October 25 - Occipital Neuralgia Awareness Day, teal
October 29 - World Stroke Day, red