A power outage affected parts of the University of St. Thomas campus and the surrounding St. Paul area Saturday morning at 9:47 a.m. but was restored within an hour.

Despite reports of power outlets and overhead lights not working, the campus Wi-Fi was unaffected.

The View and Summit Marketplace were forced to close due to lack of power, and were no longer able to serve students. Both venues have since reopened.

According to Xcel Energy’s online outage map, at the time, 1,436 customers were affected, but crews were currently in the area working to restore the power.

Owen Larson can be reached at lars6521@stthomas.edu.