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.

  1. Further Mayo Clinic’s mission by enhancing public awareness of medical conditions and diseases

  2. Reinforce the Carillon dedication to the soldiers of the United States Military

  3. Acknowledge official public days of mourning

Building Lighting Schedule

June 3 - Spinal Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak Awareness Week, purple

June 4 - Migraine and Headache Awareness Month, purple

June 5 - LGBTI+ Pride Month, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple

June 7 - International Tourette Syndrome Awareness Day, teal

June 8 - CMV (Cytomegalovirus) Awareness Month, purple

June 15 - Cavernous Malformation Awareness Day, red and white

June 19 - Juneteenth, red, yellow and green

June 25 - World Vitiligo Day, purple