Wenonah is a neighborhood on the southeast side of

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. Its boundaries are 54th Street to the north, 34th Avenue to the east, the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport to the south, and

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to the west. The neighborhood contains a portion of Lake Nokomis. It shares a neighborhood organization with the Keewaydin,

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, and Morris Park neighborhoods, which are collectively referred to as Nokomis East and are served by the

Nokomis East Neighborhood Association Nokomis is the name of Nanabozho's grandmother in the Ojibwe traditional stories and was the name of Hiawatha Hiawatha ( , also : ), also known as Ayenwathaaa or Aiionwatha, was a precolonial Native American leader and co-founder of the Iro ...

(NENA).

Geography

Wenonah is located in the southeast portion of Minneapolis, as part of a greater community of 11 neighborhoods called

Nokomis Nokomis is the name of Nanabozho's grandmother in the Ojibwe traditional stories and was the name of Hiawatha's grandmother in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, ''The Song of Hiawatha'', which is a re-telling of the Nanabozho stories. Nokomis is ...

. The neighborhood is about twice as long laterally as it is longitudinally, or about . Its boundaries are defined by 54th Street East to the north, 34th Avenue South to the east, the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport to the south, and

to the west. For the most part, the neighborhood lies to the north of

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with the exception of a vestigial 33-property area surrounded on three sides by the Airport and only connected to the greater neighborhood by 28th Avenue South, which runs below Highway 62. The neighborhood also encompasses a portion of Lake Nokomis to the northwest. Wenonah borders three other neighborhoods directly, including Diamond Lake to the west, Keewaydin to the north, and Morris Park to the east, and touches corners with

to the northeast. Keewaydin, Morris Park, Minnehaha, and Wenonah together comprise the community of Nokomis East. The neighborhood is generally very flat, with elevations between above sea level recorded by the

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in the neighborhood boundaries. Lake Nokomis dips to below surface level in Wenonah's portion of the lake.

Politics

For elections, Wenonah is a part of Minneapolis's eleventh ward.

References

External links

Minneapolis Neighborhood Profile - WenonahNokomis East Neighborhood Association
{{Minneapolis neighborhoods Neighborhoods in Minneapolis