Streets of St. Louis, Missouri

The streets of St. Louis, Missouri, USA, and the surrounding area of Greater St. Louis are under the jurisdiction of the City of St. Louis Street Department [1]. According to the Streets Division, there are 1,000-mile (1,600 km) of streets and 600-mile (970 km) of alleys within the city.

Streets of interest include:

Arsenal Street

Arsenal Street runs east-west in South St. Louis from Broadway near the neighborhoods of Marine Villa and Kosciusko bordering the Mississippi River to the River Des Peres in the Lindenwood Park neighborhood. The street got its name from the St. Louis Arsenal a military equipment storage depot on the east end of the street that is now used primarily for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

Bates Street

Bates Street runs in a northwest-southeast direction from Gravois Avenue in the Bevo Mill and Holly Hills neighborhoods to South Broadway in the neighborhood of Carondelet.

Biddle Street

Biddle Street runs east-west from the neighborhood of Near North Riverfront (near the Mississippi River) to 20th Street in the neighborhood of Carr Square in the west.

Carr Street

Carr Street runs east-west in Downtown St. Louis from the Mississippi River to Jefferson Avenue, between the neighborhoods of Carr Square and JeffVanderLou. It is named after Judge William C. Carr, who in 1813 built the first brick dwelling in St Louis.^[1] In 1822, Carr Street formed part of the northern boundary of the city.^[2]

Chestnut Street

Chestnut Street runs east-west street in downtown St Louis and is the northern boundary of the Gateway Mall.

Chippewa Street

Chippewa Street runs east-west from the neighborhoods of Marine Villa, Gravois Park and Dutchtown, St. Louis to the neighborhoods of Lindenwood Park and St. Louis Hills.

Cole Street

Cole Street runs east-west from near the intersection of Martin Luther King Drive and Jefferson Avenue in the neighborhoods of Grand Center and Midtown St. Louis, to North Broadway near Downtown St. Louis and the Near North Riverfront.

Cole Street was formerly called Wash Street up until some time in in the early part of the 20th Century. Historic records indicate that the name change had occurred as the location of American Arithmometer Company (later the Burroughs Corporation), moved in 1900 from The LaSalle Building at 509 Olive Street to 1212 Wash Street. Today, 1212 Cole Street is the location of the employee parking lot for KDNL-TV.

Commercial Street

Commercial Street is a cobblestone street that runs north-south in Laclede's Landing near the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.

Delor Street

Delor Street runs northwest-southeast from Kingshighway Boulevard in Princeton Heights, to Virginia Street in the neighborhoods of Mount Pleasant and Carondelet.

Germania Street

Germania Street runs from the intersection near Hampton Avenue and Gravois Avenue along the River Des Peres in the neighborhood of Boulevard Heights to Alabama Street in the neighborhood of Patch.

Hall Street

Hall Street runs north-south in North St. Louis in the neighborhoods of Near North Riverfront and North Riverfront.

Itaska Street

Itaska Street runs from Ridgewood Avenue in the neighborhood of Bevo Mill to S. Broadway in the neighborhood of Mount Pleasant.

Keokuk Street

Keokuk Street runs east-west from Marine Avenue in the Marine Villa neighborhood to the east to Meramec Street in the neighborhood of Dutchtown on the west.

La Salle Street

La Salle Street runs east-west in the neighborhoods of Kosciusko, LaSalle Park, Lafayette Square, and Gate District.

Locust Street

Locust Street runs east-west from Downtown St. Louis to Grand Center and Midtown St. Louis.

Market Street

Market Street runs east-west from Memorial Drive by the grounds of the Gateway Arch to Compton Avenue in Midtown, where it becomes Forest Park Parkway. Downtown, it is the southern boundary of the Gateway Mall. Further west in Midtown, it is the southern boundary of Harris-Stowe State University. It is the main street in St. Louis for parades and public festivals.

Meramec Street

Meramec Street runs east-west from S. Broadway in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood near the Mississippi River to Chippewa Street in the neighborhoods of Tower Grove South and Dutchtown.

Miami Street

Miami Street runs east-west from Broadway in the Marine Villa neighborhood to the intersection of Grand Boulevard and [Gravois Avenue in the Gravois Park neighborhood.

Nebraska Avenue

Nebraska Avenue runs north-south from Mt. Pleasant Street in the neighborhood of Mount Pleasant near the Mississippi River to Park Avenue in the Gate District neighborhood.

O'Fallon Street

O'Fallon Street runs east-west from Laclede's Landing in Downtown St. Louis to Jefferson Avenue.

Olive Street

Olive Street runs east-west from Downtown St. Louis to the northern part of the Central West End.

Palm Street

Palm Street runs north-south from the neighborhood of Near North Riverfront on the east to the intersection near Parnell Street and Natural Bridge Avenue in the west near the Hyde Park and St. Louis Place.

Papin Street

Papin Street runs from Downtown St. Louis to the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood.

Parnell Street

Parnell Street runs north-south in the neighborhood of St. Louis Place where it becomes Jefferson Avenue near south of the neighborhoods border.

Pine Street

Pine Street runs east-west from Memorial Drive in Downtown St. Louis to Jefferson Avenue in Downtown West.

Salisbury Street

Salisbury Street is an east-west street in downtown St. Louis, MO. It is named after James Salisbury, the inventor of the Salisbury steak.

Sarah Street

Sarah Street is a major north-south street which runs from the Greater Ville neighborhood on Labadie Street to Vandeventer Avenue in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood.

The song "Down on Sarah Street", which refers to this street, is included on Otis Spann's album The Blues Is Where It's At.^[3]

Sidney Street

Sidney Street runs from the neighborhood of Kosciusko and the Mississippi River to Grand Avenue near the neighborhoods of Compton Heights and Tower Grove East.

St. Charles Street

St. Charles Street runs east-west from Downtown St. Louis on 10th Street to Downtown West on Jefferson Avenue.

Thomas Street

Thomas Street runs from the intersection of Martin Luther King Drive and Compton Avenue to Jefferson Avenue in the neighborhood of JeffVanderLou.

Utah Street

Utah Street runs east-west from S. Broadway in the neighborhood of Marine Villa west to the central neighborhood of Tower Grove South.

Walnut Street

Walnut Street runs from Memorial Drive on the east to Tucker Boulevard on the west.

Wyoming Street

Wyoming Street runs east-west from Lyon Park in the neighborhood of Kosciusko bordering the Mississippi River, to Alfred Avenue in the Tower Grove South neighborhood.

References

1. ^ Elihu Hotchkiss Shepard (1870), The early history of St. Louis and Missouri, p. 60, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vUUVAAAAYAAJ 
2. ^ Lesley Barker, St. Louis Gateway Rail: The 1970s, http://books.google.com/books?id=-418fSrmYu8C&pg=PA8 
3. ^ http://www.amazon.com/Blues-Where-Its-At/dp/B0000011NI

• Charles C. Savage (1987), Architecture of the private streets of St. Louis 
• A walk in the streets of St. Louis in 1845, 1928 
• A. N. Milner (1898), General information: city streets St. Louis‎ 
• Cory Allan Davis (2005), On these very streets: the automobile and the urban environment in St. Louis 1920-1930, University of Missouri-Columbia 
• Norman J. Johnston (1962), St. Louis and her private residential streets‎ 
• Street Lighting in St. Louis, Civic League Of Saint Louis, 1908 
• Earl B. Morgan (1908), Street pavements in St. Louis‎ 
• ‎William B. Magnan (1994), Streets of St. Louis: An Entertaining History of St. Louis Street Names 
• Andrew D. Young, Ray Gehl, Mark D. Goldfeder (2002), Streets & streetcars of St. Louis: a sentimental journey‎ 
• Andrew Hurley (1999), Streets and neighborhood history: a handbook for researchers in St. Louis‎, St. Louis. Public Policy Research Centers 
• Virginia Nester (1991), Streets of St. Louis, Mo: avenues through time‎ 
• Oscar Newman, Frank J. Wayno (1974), The privatization of streets in St. Louis: its effect on crime and community stability, National Science Foundation (U.S.) 
• William H. Bryan (1894), The street railways of St. Louis 
• McCune Gill (1920), The streets of St. Louis 

External links

• St. Louis Street Index