U.S. Census and American Community Survey microdata from 1850 to the present. Learn More about the IPUMS USA project
For a quarter century archival staff and the physical collection of IPUMS archival materials have sojourned in spaces on the West Bank at the University of Minnesota. The People’s Center on Riverside Avenue, the fifth floor of Heller Hall, 50 Willey Hall, 1200 Washington Avenue and the West Bank Office Building on South 2nd Street have all been home to the IPUMS Archive. These moves were embedded in the organizational growth, development, and change experienced by the IPUMS projects from 1999 to the present. Since 2004, IPUMS headquarters have been in 18,500 square feet of renovated space in Willey Hall on the West Bank. The space was a $1.8 million College of Liberal Arts funded remodel of an art gallery and restaurant. Now home to the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation, which houses the Minnesota Population Center (MPC), IPUMS, the Life Course Center (LCC), and the Minnesota Research Data Center (MnRDC), the space currently contains six private offices, ninety-one cubicles, lounge spaces, and twelve conference room spaces, including a large ninety seat capacity seminar room.