Valley Fair Shopping Center (Appleton, Wisconsin)

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The Valley Fair Shopping Center was a shopping mall in Appleton, Wisconsin which opened on August 11, 1954. The mall billed itself as the first enclosed mall in the United States, though the Westminster Arcade predates it by 126 years, and what is generally held as the first "modern" indoor mall in the world was build in Edina, MN in 1956. Demolition of parts of the shopping center began on August 8, 2007.
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Coordinates:   44°14'29"N   88°24'55"W
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