The Old Highland portion of the Near North neighborhood was settled in the late 19th century and contains many…
The Morris Park neighborhood extends as far south as any in Minneapolis, and it is among the few that includes a portion…
One might think the Morris Park neighborhood is named for the park within it, Morris Park. One would be wrong. The park is…
Weeks after I walked the eastern half of the Minnehaha neighborhood, another nice Sunday came along — this time with the added…
One can’t avoid the “Cult of Hiawatha” in the southeastern portion of Minneapolis, and so I once again found myself in a…
A glance at the map shows that Midtown Phillips is quite different west of 12th Avenue South than east of that…
Minneapolis’s Midtown Phillips neighborhood is bounded by Chicago and Bloomington Avenues and by 24th and Lake…
In the early 1920s, the Mid-City Industrial Area’s first big wave of development centered on Stinson…
Not all of Minneapolis’s 87 neighborhoods are neighborhoods. Three are industrial areas, a distinction…
Don’t just scroll through this post looking at the photos. At a minimum, even if you don’t read the text, click the links. The…
Marshall Terrace is a substantially industrial neighborhood in Northeast Minneapolis, but from an era when living where one…
My final walk in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood brought it together: Marcy and Holmes, electricity and water, flower and…
The central portion of Minneapolis’s Marcy-Holmes neighborhood contains everything from industry to residences, ranging…
I walked this portion of the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood on May 25, 2021, using a route map I drew on…
Adjoining areas are similar, but each view is unique—even viewing the same site from a different angle. In broad terms, this…
Snow fell since my first and second walks in Lynnhurst, but it was still recognizably the same neighborhood with its…
A month after walking the northwest corner of Lynnhurst, I returned for the northeast. I again stayed north of 50th Street…
Some parkland, a school, a church, a restaurant, and a whole bunch of single-family homes. That’s what I saw on my first day…
On a beautiful fall day, I walked all of the Lyndale neighborhood that I had missed on my prior walk. Actually, not quite all…
The Lyndale neighborhood is named for the Lyndale School, which in turn was named for Lyndale Avenue. The original school was…
Public art was a larger part of what I photographed this day compared with my first day walking the Lowry Hill East…
Only the northern tip of the Lowry Hill East neighborhood is east of Lowry Hill, which may explain why “The Wedge” is…
A glance at the map shows larger spaces between the streets in the northern part of Lowry Hill than in the grid-like…
The Lowry Hill neighborhood is named for the “devil’s backbone” ridge that runs through it, approximately on the dividing…
