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The antithesis of Milwaukee Avenue—the Seward neighborhood's secret boulevard of late 19^th century homes—is the Cedars 94 apartment complex, located just across from Milwaukee on Franklin's north side. Where Milwaukee Avenue has dozens of brick homes with low front porches and gingerbread gables, the apartments have faded wooden shingles and a chain-link security fence. Where Milwaukee Avenue has forsythia, lilac, and crabapple trees along its center, Cedars 94 has cement courtyards and is bound by the roar of traffic from Franklin and Interstate 94.