AITKIN -- It is a piece of history that’s been on Minnesota Avenue North in Aitkin since 1903. Aitkin’s Opera House, also known as the Butler Building, at one time was bustling at the seams as the ...

At present, the buildings are roughly 25 percent complete, Bill Zahn, senior project manager for Butler construction, said in an e-mail. “The project is on schedule for occupancy by the fall of 2009,” ...

For years the boxy brown brick buildings of Butler were the butt of many a campus joke, and Butlerites bonded over the waffle ceilings and buildings that many considered to be the blight of campus.