Seward Neighborhood Group

Visitors to Minneapolis’s Seward Neighborhood are often struck by its intimacy and relative compactness, and in fact the neighborhood has been described as a small town surrounded on all sides by a big city. One reason for this strong sense of community independence is that the neighborhood’s boundaries are well-defined, literally setting Seward apart from the rest of the city. The neighborhood’s eastern border follows the Mississippi River to the Soo Line Railroad, which traces the southern boundary as it moves away from the river to the west. In the west, the boundary is marked by Hiawatha Avenue, and to the north is Interstate Highway 94.