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McDowell/Central Avenue (also known as Cultural District) is a light rail station on Valley Metro Rail in uptown Phoenix, Arizona, United States. It is the tenth stop southbound, and is located on Central Avenue south of McDowell Road, across the street from the Burton Barr Central Library and one block south of the Phoenix Art Museum .
The neighborhood runs from McDowell Road south to Roosevelt Street and from Seventh Avenue west to Grand Avenue. The neighborhood as well as many of the individual houses are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The F.Q. Story neighborhood consists of 602 homes that were constructed from the late 1920s through the late 1940s.
Mount McDowell (O'odham: S-wegĭ Doʼag, Yavapai: Wi:kawatha), more commonly referred to as Red Mountain, is located on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Reservation, just north of Mesa, Arizona. It is named after General Irvin McDowell, a Union officer in the Civil War. Its elevation is 2,832 feet (863 m).
Center Street in 1908. Central Avenue was originally named Center Street upon Phoenix's founding with the surrounding north–south roads named after Indian tribes. [3] The original Churchill Addition of 1877, covering a small area north of Van Buren Street to what is presently Roosevelt Street, was the first recorded plat showing Central Avenue with its present name. [4]
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North of McDowell Road, the highway has a partial interchange with SR 202 (Red Mountain Freeway) allowing access to and from the west; access to the other direction of SR 202 is provided by McDowell Road. Power Road parallels the Fannin-McFarland Aqueduct of the Central Arizona Project and reduces to four lanes for its final stretch through an ...
McDowell Road: Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; exit 5 on SR 143; access to McDowell Road via SR 143 north: 4.37– 4.52: 7.03– 7.27: 4: Van Buren Street (Historic US 80) / 52nd Street: Tempe: 5.35: 8.61: 5: To SR 143 south – Sky Harbor Airport: Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; access via unsigned SR 202 Spur: 5.71– 6.37: 9.19 ...
Mesa (/ ˈ m eɪ s ə / ⓘ MAY-sə) is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.The population was 504,258 at the 2020 census. [4] It is the third-most populous city in Arizona, after Phoenix and Tucson, the 36th-most populous city in the U.S., and the most populous city that is not a county seat (except for independent cities Washington, D.C. and Baltimore which are not part of any ...