The Virginia Triangle is the commons of Hennepin and Lyndale Avenues on

Lowry Hill, Minneapolis Lowry Hill is a neighborhood within the Calhoun-Isles community in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The neighborhood is regarded as being one of the city’s most upscale and wealthy neighborhoods. It was historically the home of Minneapolis’s most pr ...

in the U.S. state of

Minnesota Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over to ...

. Until 1967, it was a simple (though congested) intersection, with a small park in the center. By the early 2000s, it contained many on- and off-ramps and a number of large intersections, servicing Hennepin and Lyndale, as well as

Interstate 94 Interstate 94 (I-94) is an east–west Interstate Highway connecting the Great Lakes and northern Great Plains regions of the United States. Its western terminus is just east of Billings, Montana, at a junction with I-90; its eastern ter ...

. Interstate 94 also runs directly under the site, through the

Lowry Hill Tunnel The Lowry Hill Tunnel is a tunnel in length accommodating the Interstate 94 (I-94) freeway near downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota that was completed in late 1971. It is placed at a near-right-angle turn in the highway, forcing the three la ...

. The

Walker Art Center The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in the United States and, t ...

and the Basilica of Saint Mary are located adjacent to the Triangle.

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