The city is full of them... many of, which I may never know!



Biddle

Botanical

Castleman

Chain of Rocks

Crittenden

Delmar

Delor

Devonshire

Goodfellow

Gratiot

Ivanhoe

Juniata

Loughborough

Marconi

Oleatha

Pestalozzi

Scanlan

Shenandoah

Skinker

Vandeventer

Two of my favorites are in Shrewsbury.



Jacobs Old Coal Road

Murdoch Cut-Off

I like how some areas have themed streets.



Obviously, downtown has the tree and number streets going on...

Spruce

Walnut

Chestnut

Pine

Olive

Locust

and

1st-23rd (no 12th [Tucker] and no 5th [Broadway])

[Plus, there's 37th, 39th and 59th streets in South City, as well as even larger numbers I can't remember in U City off of Olive...hmm...]

I've always liked number streets.



I also love the state streets in Southeast City. Most of the U.S. states are represented somewhere in the City.



The Shaw neighborhood has some Garden-themed streets:

Shaw

Botanical

Flora

Magnolia

Spring (? )





Also, Southampton has the English-sounding streets:

Murdoch

Nottingham

Devonshire

Sutherland

Macklind

Lansdowne

Hampton, etc.



I like how Hyde Park still has streets named after its (that is, the city of Bremen which was annexed by the City in the 1850s) founders:

Angelrodt

Destrehan

Buchanan

Mallinckrodt



I love how Grand has a South Grand stretch, a North Grand, AND an East Grand.



[More trivia] Streets with neighborhoods named after them (or vice versa):

Compton [Compton Heights]

Grand [Grand South Grand, Grand Center - yeah, I know they're not official]

Clifton [Clifton Heights]

Hampton [Southampton, Northampton]

Kingshighway [Kings Oak, Kingsway East, Kingsway West]

Penrose [Penrose]

Gravois [Gravois Park]

Shaw [Shaw]

Vandeventer [Vandeventer]

Lindenwood [Lindenwood Park]

Hi-Pointe [Hi-Pointe]

Skinker [Skinker-Debaliviere, Wydown Skinker

Debaliviere [Skinker-Debaliviere, Debaliviere Place]

Holly Hills [Holly Hills]

Mt. Pleasant [Mt. Pleasant]

McRee [McRee Town]

Goodfellow [Wellsgoodfellow]

Riverview [Riverview]

LaSalle [LaSalle]

Soulard [Soulard--does this actually run through the neighborhood...?]



Let's see...what else...can anyone think of St. Louis street names named after other cities?

I know of Nashville in Dogtown and Cleveland in Shaw.



Fun topic.

^Miami in s. city is another city name. I know there are more.

Wichita in Forest Park Southeast and Louisville in Dogtown.

It's a city now at least.

I second Matt's frustration...







How about this one:



St. Louis streets that share names with suburbs (for whatever reason):

Clayton

St. Charles

O'Fallon

Florissant

Riverview

Oakland

Manchester

Page(dale)



Any others?

There is Louisville in dogtown.

Matt Drops The H, really like your post!



I think it was Lindell, was called Berlin Avenue before WW1.





The names which I really like are



Cote Brilliante (some pronounce Coatie Brilliant)

Cabanne (some pronounce Cabinee)

Chouteau

Arsenal

Chipewa

Delmar (the name has a story, but I forget it...no, doesn't mean "The Sea" in Spanish...that's Del Mar)

Vandeventer

Westminster

Argyl

Olive

Tamm

Salisbury



Well, all that have been mentioned, actually...I think I really like all of them because they're in St. Louis or nearby. Except, maybe......Skinker? Aw...kinda grows on ya.

I like some of the peculiar names, like "Hydraulic" for a residential street!

I really like some of the old French sounding streets by downtown and a couple other brainbusters. I think I know how to prounounce them, but could use extra help...



Gratiot - Grass-shot

Cerre- Sir

Gravois- Grah-voy

Loughborough- Lof-burro(I've heard Luf-burro too)

Oleatha - O-lee-the

Cote Brilliante - I have no idea

Dodier- Dough-dee-er



Others include:

Mullanphy

Papin

Morganford

Grand

Kingshighway

Kossuth

Natural Bridge

James Cool Papa Bell



edit: Thanks Marmar(does that mean seasea?) You beat me to it on the Cote Brilliante pronunciation)

Marmar wrote:Delmar (the name has a story, but I forget it...no, doesn't mean "The Sea" in Spanish...that's Del Mar)

Delmar Blvd: A coined name combining the first three letters of Delaware and Maryland, those being the home states of the owners of two abutting tracts of land along the street.

Interesting fact about Delmar. I didn't know that. Now I wonder if the Maryland landowner was south of Delmar because there is a Maryland Avenue. And it is one of the few, if not only state street that goes east/west. And one of the few if not only state streets in that area.



Living the the Mid-Atlantic area, I have always notice the Mid-Atlantic places names in St. Louis. Maryland Avenue, Richmond Heights, Maryland Heights, etc. And many others. Maybe I could count Washington Avenue, too. Except most cities have a Washington street in a prominent location and it is probably for the president and not the city.



I will bet most of you don't know there is a St. Louis Street and a Clayton Street in Dewey Beach, Delaware. Dewey Beach is a small sliver of a beach town on the Atlantic Ocean. Both St. Louis Street and Clayton Street start at the ocean and go west. There is another street between them. Most of Dewey Beach's streets don't have city names, so this stood out when I saw it.

James "Cool Papa" Bell (in the JVL nabe of North City)- Now, there's a street that would be literally cool to have as an address.



39th and 59th in the City, as well as 81st and 82nd in U-City- I mean they couldn't come up with a few more names, so as not to leave these dangling enumerations?



Themed streets other than the bird, trees or pastoral names of suburbia, just like those already mentioned in English-named Southampton, or the Indian E-W and State N-S streets in South City.



I also like the theme of streets with university names in University City:

Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Stanford, etc.



Ironically, though, Washington in U-City is not named after the nearby university, but a continuation of St. Louis' Washington streets, named after the first president.

urbanstlouis wrote:Delmar Blvd: A coined name combining the first three letters of Delaware and Maryland, those being the home states of the owners of two abutting tracts of land along the street.

There is also a Mardel in the South Hampton area, which was named by the same developers for the same reasons a little later on I believe.

Thank you, mcarril!! I knew it was a combination of two things, I just couldn't remember what.



Uh, maybe si, si? No no no, senor brickandmortar.

DeVolsey

Vandeventer

DeBaliviere

Gano

Kingshighway



oh god, there are so many cool ones!

Pershing

Kingsbury

Waterman

Westminster

DeGiverville

DeBaliviere

Lenox

Westmoreland

Crittenden

Chamberlain

Goodfellow

Tholozan

Fee Fee Road that runs somewhat north and south starting from the south in Chesterfield and going north to Hazelwood.



St. Charles Rock Road; often dubbed just Rock Road, but reminds me of rocky road ice cream; and should be labeled boulevard.



Taussig lane , a former farm road in Bridgeton



Olive Blvd., not unique but an important east-west road without question



I love Delmar, Skinker, and Loughborough.



Bellerive in the City is a favorite because my grandmother lived near Bellerive park

Marmar, I think it was Pershing not Lindell that was known as Berlin Ave. prior to world war I.

Expat wrote:I will bet most of you don't know there is a St. Louis Street and a Clayton Street in Dewey Beach, Delaware. Dewey Beach is a small sliver of a beach town on the Atlantic Ocean. Both St. Louis Street and Clayton Street start at the ocean and go west. There is another street between them. Most of Dewey Beach's streets don't have city names, so this stood out when I saw it.

Is it Skinker?