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Uptown, Minneapolis — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Uptown is a lively commercial district of Minneapolis, set among lakes, streetcar-era blocks, and old brick storefronts.
About Uptown
Where to stay in Uptown
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Where you base yourself in Uptown shapes the whole visit. Blocks near the Como-Harriet Streetcar Line put you within reach of the lakes and quieter residential streets, while the commercial spine of the district keeps shops and cafés at the door. Stay close to the Minnesota Streetcar Museum for a calmer, museum-minded corner.
Walkers win here.
About Uptown
What are the main landmarks in Uptown?
The district's draws lean toward art, faith, and rail heritage. The Como-Harriet Streetcar Line still carries riders on restored cars, and the Minnesota Streetcar Museum keeps that transit story alive with preserved rolling stock and archives. Faith landmarks anchor several corners too.
The Church of the Incarnation and the Church of Saint Stephen give the surrounding streets their spires and stone, while the Minneapolis Scottish Rite Temple adds a monumental façade that reads as a neighbourhood civic marker rather than a mere place of worship.
What is the history of Uptown?
Streetcars made this corner of Minneapolis. The Como-Harriet Streetcar Line drew shops and apartment blocks along its route, and the district grew as a walkable commercial cluster around those rails. Older houses record the same era.
The Amos B. Coe House and the Bennett-McBride House survive as reminders of the residential fabric that filled in beside the tracks, and the Minnesota Streetcar Museum now interprets the transit network that shaped the whole neighbourhood.
Where is Uptown?
Uptown sits amid the lakes and low ridges of southern Minneapolis, its blocks laid out where old streetcar routes once ran.
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Updated July 2026