Click here to view a list of missing items. Photographs of some of the artifacts are also posted here to help authorities with their investigation. Mayo House staff discovered the theft on April 25, 2001. The site, a part of the Minnesota Historical Society's network of historic sites, is operated by the Mayo House Interpretive Society. The site had an active security system, which was dismantled in the course of the break-in.
Items missing include household and personal items and medical equipment.
The theft is a loss not only to the Mayo House and the Society but also to the people of Minnesota. More than a thousand visitors a year visit the historic home, which was built in 1859. W.W. Mayo practiced medicine there as a country doctor before founding the Mayo Clinic in Rochester with his sons. Later, the home was owned by three generations of the Cosgrove family, founders of what would later become the Green Giant Company. The seasonal opening of the site to the public has been delayed until mid-May.