Harrison is a neighborhood in the
Near North community in the
U.S. city of
Minneapolis
Minneapolis is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, and its county seat. With a population of 429,954 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the state's List of cities in Minnesota, most populous city. Locat ...
, located to the west of downtown. Its boundaries are roughly,
Olson Memorial Highway to the north,
Lyndale Avenue to the east, Bassetts Creek to the south, and
Theodore Wirth Park to the west. It is located in Ward 5.
History
In the 1970s the musician
Prince
A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. The ...
lived as a child in two homes in the Harrison Neighborhood, at 1707 Glenwood Avenue and 539 Newton Avenue North.
References
* Gabler, Jay. "Prince’s childhood homes: MnDOT research helps create a timeline" https://blog.thecurrent.org/2016/09/princes-childhood-homes-mndot-research-helps-create-a-timeline Sept. 30, 2016 (retrieved 2018-May-05)
* Wargelin, K. Marianne. "Finntown, Minneapolis - An American Neighborhood" http://digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/collection/p17208coll13/id/6345 Hennepin History magazine, Fall 1988 (retrieved 2018-May-05)
External links
Minneapolis Neighborhood Profile - HarrisonHarrison Neighborhood Association
{{Geographic Location
, Center = Harrison
, North = Willard-Hay, Near North
, Northeast = Sumner-Glenwood
, East = North Loop
, Southeast =
, South = Bryn Mawr
, Southwest =
, West = City of Golden Valley, Minnesota
Golden Valley is a western and first-ring suburb of Minneapolis in Hennepin County, Minnesota, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 22,552 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city is mostly residential an ...
, Northwest =
Neighborhoods in Minneapolis