Excelsior
Excelsior is a city of 2300 people in the Twin Cities. Excelsior was founded in the 1850s as a destination for vacationers, primarily from the cities of Minneapolis and St.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,280 residents
- Description: city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States
- Also known as: “City of Excelsior”, “Excelsior, Minnesota”, and “Excelsior, MN”
- Postal code: 55331
- Neighbors: Chanhassen
Places of Interest
Highlights include Galpin Lake and Allemarinda and James Wyer House.
Galpin Lake
Galpin Lake is a lake in Hennepin County, Minnesota, in the United States. The northern part of the lake is in Excelsior and the southern part is in Shorewood.Allemarinda and James Wyer House
Apartment building
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The Allemarinda and James Wyer House is a Victorian cottage beside Lake Minnetonka in Excelsior, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1887 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shorewood and Greenwood.
Shorewood
Village
Shorewood is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 7,783 at the 2020 census. The city is located around the southern shore of Lake Minnetonka. State Highway 7 serves as a main route.
Greenwood
Village
Greenwood is a community on Saint Albans Bay on Lake Minnetonka in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States just northeast of the community of Excelsior, Minnesota. The population was 726 at the 2020 census.
Tonka Bay
Village
Tonka Bay is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. It is on Lake Minnetonka between the upper and lower lakes. It gained some popularity in the 1880s and 1890s as a summer lake resort. The population was 1,442 at the 2020 census.
Excelsior
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: City of Excelsior, Hennepin, Twin Cities, Minnesota, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.9033° or 44° 54′ 12″ northLongitude
-93.5663° or 93° 33′ 59″ westPopulation
2,280Elevation
945 feet (288 metres)United Nations Location Code
US EXZOpen location code
86P8WC3M+8FOpenStreetMap ID
node 151674999OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Excelsior” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إكسلسيور (مينيسوتا)”
- Arabic: “إكسلسيور”
- Basque: “Excelsior”
- Cebuano: “Excelsior”
- Chechen: “Экселсиор”
- Chinese: “Excelsior”
- Chinese: “埃克塞爾西奧”
- Chinese: “艾克塞西尔”
- Chinese: “艾克塞西爾”
- Czech: “Excelsior”
- Danish: “Excelsior”
- Dutch: “Excelsior”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اكسلسيور”
- French: “Excelsior”
- German: “Excelsior”
- Gilaki: “اکسلسیور (مينسؤتا)”
- Gilaki: “اکسلسیور”
- Haitian: “Excelsior, Minnesota”
- Haitian: “Excelsior”
- Hebrew: “אקסלסיור”
- Ido: “Excelsior, Minnesota”
- Ido: “Excelsior”
- Irish: “Excelsior”
- Italian: “Excelsior”
- Ladin: “Excelsior”
- Malagasy: “Excelsior, Minnesota”
- Malagasy: “Excelsior”
- Mazanderani: “ایکسلسیر (مینهسوتا)”
- Mazanderani: “ایکسلسیر”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Excelsior”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Excelsior”
- Persian: “ایکسلسیر، مینهسوتا”
- Persian: “ایکسلسیر”
- Polish: “Excelsior”
- Portuguese: “Excelsior”
- Serbian: “Икселсир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Excelsior, Minnesota”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Excelsior”
- Slovak: “Excelsior”
- South Azerbaijani: “ایکسلسیر، مینهسوتا”
- Spanish: “Excelsior (Minnesota)”
- Spanish: “Excelsior”
- Tatar: “Экселсиор”
- Turkish: “Excelsior”
- Ukrainian: “Екселсіор”
- Uzbek: “Excelsior”
- Uzbek: “Ехcелсиор”
- Vietnamese: “Excelsior, Minnesota”
- Vietnamese: “Excelsior”
- Volapük: “Excelsior”
- Welsh: “Excelsior, Minnesota”
- Welsh: “Excelsior”
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