Lower Mennipin Street

Lower Mennipin Street is the location of the Thropp family's town house in the Emerald City, a residence that becomes a point of reference for the family's presence in the capital during the period following Nessarose's rise to prominence. The street is mentioned in the context of a chance encounter between Fiyero and Glinda, who reports having seen Nessarose at a cabaret with the Eminent Thropp and Nanny, and notes that the family home is on Lower Mennipin Street. This address, which has "come up quite a lot in the past decade," signals the Thropp family's increased visibility and political engagement in the Emerald City during the Wizard's reign. Fiyero, despite being "sorely tempted," deliberately refrains from strolling past the house, a decision that underscores his commitment to maintaining secrecy about his connection to Elphaba and his unwillingness to risk exposure by approaching her family's known residence. The street thus functions as a concrete marker of the Thropp family's social and political foothold in the capital, and as a boundary that Fiyero chooses not to cross in order to protect his clandestine relationship with Elphaba.