Hennepin Avenue
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Hennepin Avenue is a major street in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It runs from Lakewood Cemetery, north through the Uptown District of Southwest Minneapolis, through the Virginia Triangle, the former "Bottleneck" area west of Loring Park. It then goes through the North Loop in the city center, to Northeast Minneapolis and the city's eastern boundary, where it becomes Larpenteur Avenue as it enters Lauderdale in Ramsey County at Highway 280. Hennepin Avenue is a Minneapolis city street south/west of Washington Avenue, and is designated as Hennepin County Road 52 from Washington Avenue to the county line.
Hennepin at night under the pre-2009 lane configuration
Hennepin Avenue, looking north from 10th Street into the downtown Theatre District
Robert Koehler painting Rainy Evening on Hennepin Avenue c. 1902. The oil on canvas original is at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Nye's Polonaise on East Hennepin, voted "The Best Bar in America" by Esquire in 2006; partially demolished in 2016 for redevelopment and renovation
Lakewood Cemetery
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Lakewood Cemetery is a large private, non-sectarian cemetery located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It is located at 3600 Hennepin Avenue at the southern end of the Uptown area. It is noted for its chapel which is on the National Register of Historic Places and was modeled after the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey.
The Byzantine-styled chapel at Lakewood Cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Stained glass window in one of the Mausoleum rooms; Tiny Tim's tomb can be seen at left
Interior of the Memorial Chapel dome
McMullen monument by sculptor Nellie Walker