 pillsbury baptist bible college (formerly, the pillsbury military academy) was an independent fundamentalist baptist christian college in owatonna, minnesota, founded in 1957. it closed permanently in 2008.  pillsbury described itself as a "biblical arts college." it offered a four-year program leading to the degrees of bachelor of arts in bible and bachelor of science in bible, as well as several associate degrees and a bible certificate program. ==history== the campus was first opened as the minnesota academy on september 10, 1877 by the minnesota baptist state convention as a college preparatory school. the name was changed to the pillsbury academy in 1886 in honor of one of its chief donors, george a. pillsbury of the first baptist church, minneapolis, and one time mayor of the city. in 1920 it was renamed the pillsbury military academy. in 1957, after a dispute resulted in a change in baptist convention control from american baptist to fundamentalist minnesota baptist, the academy was abruptly closed and reconstituted as a 4-year biblical arts college, pillsbury baptist bible college.http://www.pillsburyacademy.com/history.html the older structures on campus, roughly bounded by academy, grove, and main streets, were placed on the national register of historic places on january 22, 1987 as the pillsbury academy campus historic district. these include old main and kelly hall. thumb|left|a modern academic building on the closed campus in 2011 in february 2005, pillsbury received accreditation by the association for biblical higher education (abhe). pillsbury also had membership in the american association of christian colleges and seminaries.[http://www.aaccs.info/members.asp ame
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