Holman Field Administration Building

Infobox_nrhp | name =Holman Field Administration Building
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location=644 Bayfield Street Saint Paul, Minnesota
lat_degrees = 44
lat_minutes = 56
lat_seconds = 31
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 93
long_minutes = 3
long_seconds = 53
long_direction = W
locmapin = Minnesota
area =
built =1939
architect= Clarence Wigington
architecture= Moderne
added = August 15, 1991
governing_body = Local
refnum=91001004cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

The Holman Field Administration Building is a Kasota limestone building designed by Clarence Wigington and built in 1939 by WPA employees. It serves as the control building for the St. Paul Downtown Airport in Saint Paul in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The airport was named for Charles W. Holman, who won the U.S. air speed trials in 1930. The airfield was built on the former site of Lamprey Lake, which was filled with dredged material from the adjacent Mississippi River, which regularly floods the airport. Across the river in Indian Mounds Park is one of the last remaining airway beacons in the country. [cite web| last = Lee| first = Steve| title = Holman Field| work = Mississippi River Field Guide| publisher = Friends of the Mississippi River| date = 2002-05-18| url = http://fieldguide.fmr.org/site_detail.php?site_id=273| accessdate =2008-01-30] [cite web| last = Helms| first = Marisa| title = Airport flood project stirs the waters in St. Paul| publisher = Minnesota Public Radio| date = 2006-04-05| url = http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/04/05/_stpaulairport/| accessdate =2008-01-30] cite book|title=The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota|last=Nord|first=Mary Ann|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|date=2003|isbn=0-87351-448-3]

During World War II, Northwest Airlines employed up to 5000 people at the site, modifying new B-24 Liberator bombers, some of which received the highly classified H2X radar, which proved to be an invaluable tool in the European theater. [cite web| last = Kenney| first = Dave| title = Minnesota Goes to War - The Home front During World War II| publisher = Minnesota Historical Society Press| date = 2004| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=ZXRFrTV1jgMC&dq=holman+field+administration| accessdate =2008-01-30]

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