North Minneapolis, MN Real Estate Listings Homes and Condos from Realtor Tara O'Brien

North Minneapolis contains the fine communities of Harrison, Hawthorne, Jordan, Near North, Sumner Glen and Willard Hay.

Harrison
Harrison neighborhood is on the western side of Minneapolis. The neighborhood is bound on the north by Highway 55 (Olson Memorial Highway), on the east by Interstate 94 and Lyndale Avenue North, on the south by Bassett's Creek and on the west by Theodore Wirth Park. It is named for Harrison Elementary School, which was named after William Henry Harrison - the ninth president of the United States, born in 1773. Parcels of industrial land occupy the neighborhood east of Cedar Lake Road, while the western part is mainly residential. Bassett's Creek Park is on the banks of Bassett's Creek in the southwest and continues to the northwest as Theodore Wirth Park.

Hawthorne
The Hawthorne neighborhood and its elementary school are named after the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, born in 1804. Hawthorne is located in north Minneapolis in the city's Near North community. The neighborhood is bounded by the Mississippi River on the east and Emerson Avenue on the west; Broadway Avenue is the southern extent and Lowry Avenue is the neighborhood's northern boundary. Hawthorne is mostly a residential neighborhood with single-family houses.

Jordan
Jordan, in Minneapolis' northwest, is bound on the north by Lowry Avenue North, on the east by Emerson Avenue North, on the south and west by West Broadway Avenue. It gets its name from a neighborhood junior high school, which was built in 1922 and named after Minneapolis Public Schools Superintendent Emeritus Charles Morison Jordan. Jordan is mainly a residential neighborhood.

Near North
The Near North neighborhood is located in the northwest portion of the City of Minneapolis and north of downtown, hence its name. It stretches from the Mississippi River on the east to Penn, Knox, James and Irving avenues on the west, and from West Broadway Avenue on the north to Olson Memorial Highway and 11^th Avenue North on the south.

Willard Hay
Willard Hay is located in the northwest part of the city. The neighborhood is south of West Broadway Avenue and stretches from Penn Avenue to Xerxes Avenue. It gets its name from two elementary schools within its borders: Francis Willard and John Hay. The former was named after an American educator, author and reformer born in 1859, and the latter was named after an American diplomat and author born in 1839. A mainly residential area, the neighborhood includes Willard-Homewood, one of the city's first planned developments, built during the first quarter of the 20^th century and located south of Plymouth Avenue.