{"id":5,"date":"2013-06-09T19:38:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T19:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2025-05-24T22:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T22:40:44","slug":"directions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/?page_id=5","title":{"rendered":"Location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Thoreau Center is located\u00a0 at <strong>3500 Kingman Boulevard in Des Moines,<\/strong> which is just north of the I-235 freeway on the southwest corner of 35th Street and Kingman Blvd.. The Thoreau center is located between the 31st Street and 42nd Street freeway exits.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=The+Thoreau+Center+%E2%80%A2+3500+Kingman+Boulevard+Des+Moines,+IA&amp;aq=&amp;sll=41.596702,-93.664627&amp;sspn=0.023107,0.033045&amp;g=41.597152,-93.66437&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=The+Thoreau+Center+%E2%80%A2+3500+Kingman+Boulevard+Des+Moines,+IA&amp;hnear=&amp;radius=15000&amp;t=m&amp;ll=41.608127,-93.660164&amp;spn=0.061609,0.109863&amp;z=13&amp;iwloc=A&amp;output=embed\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/External-building-two.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-334\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/External-building-two-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/External-building-two-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/External-building-two-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/External-building-two-830x623.jpg 830w, http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/External-building-two-230x173.jpg 230w, http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/External-building-two-350x263.jpg 350w, http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/External-building-two-480x360.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/External-building-two.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Driving to The Thoreau Center from the Freeway<br \/><\/strong>Take the 31st Street Exit.\u00a0 Drive north on 31st Street to Kingman Blvd.\u00a0 Turn left onto Kingman and drive west four blocks.\u00a0 The Thoreau Center is on the left at the corner of 35<sup>th<\/sup> and Kingman.\u00a0 You may park in the large parking lot to the south of the Thoreau Center.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Driving to The Thoreau Center from Drake University<br \/><\/strong>From University Avenue, turn south on 35<sup>th<\/sup> Street. Drive to the four-way stop at Kingman Blvd.\u00a0 The Thoreau Center is on your right at the corner of 35<sup>th<\/sup> and Kingman. You may park in the large parking lot to the south of the Thoreau Center.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Driving to The Thoreau Center from downtown Des Moines<\/strong><br \/>From downtown, drive west on Grand Avenue to 35<sup>th<\/sup> Street.\u00a0 Take a right, now driving north.\u00a0 Three blocks after going under the freeway, the Thoreau Center is the corner building on your left at the four-way stop at Kingman Blvd. You may park in the large parking lot to the south of the Thoreau Center.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/thoreau-map.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-219\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/thoreau-map-300x182.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"681\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/thoreau-map-300x182.png 300w, http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/thoreau-map-1024x622.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/thoreau-map-768x466.png 768w, http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/thoreau-map-1536x933.png 1536w, http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/thoreau-map-2048x1244.png 2048w, http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/thoreau-map-624x379.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/a><br \/><small><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: left;\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=embed&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=The+Thoreau+Center+%E2%80%A2+3500+Kingman+Boulevard+Des+Moines,+IA&amp;aq=&amp;sll=41.596702,-93.664627&amp;sspn=0.023107,0.033045&amp;g=41.597152,-93.66437&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=The+Thoreau+Center+%E2%80%A2+3500+Kingman+Boulevard+Des+Moines,+IA&amp;hnear=&amp;radius=15000&amp;t=m&amp;ll=41.608127,-93.660164&amp;spn=0.061609,0.109863&amp;z=13&amp;iwloc=A\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Thoreau Center is located\u00a0 at 3500 Kingman Boulevard in Des Moines, which is just north of the I-235 freeway on the southwest corner of 35th Street and Kingman Blvd.. The Thoreau center is located between the 31st Street and 42nd Street freeway exits. Directions Driving to The Thoreau Center from the FreewayTake the 31st [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}