The Playwrights‘ Center
The Playwrights‘ Center is a theater building in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota which is located on East Franklin Avenue. The Playwrights‘ Center is situated nearby to the sports venue Movement Arts Center, as well as near the restaurant Seward Community Cafe.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Seward Community Cafe and Weisman Art Museum.
Seward Community Cafe
Restaurant
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The Seward Community Cafe is a collectively run cooperative restaurant in the Seward neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, notable for being the oldest worker-run restaurant in the United States. Seward Community Cafe is situated 540 feet west of The Playwrights‘ Center.
Weisman Art Museum
Museum
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Weisman Art Museum is an art museum at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Founded in 1934 as University Gallery, the museum was originally housed in an upper floor of the university's Northrop Auditorium. Weisman Art Museum is situated 3,900 feet north of The Playwrights‘ Center.
Franklin Avenue
Railway station
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Franklin Avenue station is a light rail station on the Blue Line in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This station is a bridge above Franklin Avenue along Minnesota State Highway 55, in Minneapolis. Franklin Avenue is situated 2,000 feet west of The Playwrights‘ Center.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Seward and Stadium Village.
Seward
Neighborhood
Seward is a neighborhood in the Longfellow community of Minneapolis, Minnesota, located geographically southeast of downtown. It consists of the land bordered by the Hiawatha Avenue industrial district to the west, Minneapolis Midtown Greenway to the south, the Mississippi River to the east, and Interstate 94 to the north.
Stadium Village
Locality
Stadium Village is an area of Minneapolis, Minnesota near the East Bank campus of the University of Minnesota. While not an official neighborhood of Minneapolis, the area is an important commercial district that serves university students with many bars and restaurants.
Phillips
Suburb
Phillips is a community in Minneapolis, just south of downtown. Traditionally, it was both a community and a neighborhood. Phillips is a diverse area in many ways: its population includes people of many nationalities; it has a mix of residential, commercial…
The Playwrights‘ Center
- Type: Theater building
- Address: 2301 East Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, 55406
- Categories: building, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Minneapolis, Hennepin, Twin Cities, Minnesota, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.96249° or 44° 57′ 45″ northLongitude
-93.23909° or 93° 14′ 21″ westInception
1900Open location code
86P8XQ66+X9OpenStreetMap ID
way 66823280OpenStreetMap feature
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