Number streets of

St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the Greater St. Louis, ...

, start at the Mississippi River and increase as they go west. They are primarily found

Downtown ''Downtown'' is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's sometimes commercial, cultural and often the historical, political and geographic heart. It is often synonymous with its central business distric ...

and in Downtown West.

1st Street

1st Street is broken by the grounds of Gateway Arch National Park, location of the Gateway Arch. South of the Memorial, it runs from Poplar Street down through the Kosiusko neighborhood to Victor Street where it dead-ends. 1st Street starts up again on Potomac Street and eventually turns into Gasconade Street. To the north, it runs from Washington Avenue as far as North Market Street (different from the downtown Market Street. 1st Street briefly shows up again in Near North Riverfront before turning into Kissock Avenue.

3rd Street

In the 1930s, the part of 3rd street beside Gateway Arch National Park (which was named Jefferson National Expansion Memorial at the time) was converted into Memorial Drive. North of Biddle Street, 3rd merges with Broadway and continues on to the city limits.

5th Street

5th Street is officially known as Broadway. Broadway goes as far south as Lemay in St. Louis County where it turns into Kingston Drive. To the north, Broadway intersects with 3rd Street and runs with it as far as Riverview Blvd where it then becomes Bellefontaine Road. Broadway is one of the major boulevards for St. Louis. In the north it passes

O'Fallon Park O'Fallon Park is a municipal park in St. Louis, Missouri, that opened in 1908. Description The park is named after John O'Fallon, a colonel who fought in the War of 1812 and nephew of William Clark. The park is 126.63 acres and was once part of O ...

, Bellefontaine Cemetery, and Calvary Cemetery.

12th Street

12th Street, later 12th Boulevard, is now officially known as Tucker Boulevard, renamed for former Mayor Raymond R. Tucker. It is double sized and serves as the border between Downtown and Downtown West.

18th Street

18th Street in

runs north–south through Downtown West.

Truman Parkway The Truman Parkway is a historic parkway in Milton and southern Boston, Massachusetts. It runs along the southern boundary of a portion of the Neponset River Reservation and serves as a connection between the Neponset Valley Parkway and the B ...

becomes 18th at

Chouteau Avenue Chouteau was the name of a highly successful, ethnically French fur-trading family based in Saint Louis, Missouri, which they helped found. Their ancestors Chouteau and Laclède initially settled in New Orleans. They then moved-up the Mississipp ...

and continues north over the Union MetroLink Station. It passes between the

St. Louis Post Office The U.S. Custom House and Post Office is a court house at 815 Olive Street in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. It was designed by architects Alfred B. Mullett, William Appleton Potter, and James G. Hill,Union Station on to the Gateway Mall where it separates the Mall's Neighborhood Room from

Aloe Plaza Aloe Plaza is a small park and plaza in St Louis, directly in front of Union Station; it is the western terminus of the St. Louis Gateway Mall. Two city blocks in size, it is bounded by Market, Chestnut, 18th, and 20th streets, although an extens ...

. It continues north past the Salvation Army's

Railton Building Railton may refer to: * Railton (surname) * Railton (car), a former marque of British automobiles * Railton, Kentucky, a place in the US; see List of tornadoes in the Super Outbreak * Railton, Tasmania, a town in Tasmania, Australia See also * Cam ...

. 18th Street ends in Carr Square where it comes to a T on O'Fallon Street. File:MarketStSTL.jpg, at dawn at 18th and Market

22nd Street

As part of Paul McKee's NorthSide project, the broken section of 22nd street near the I-64 interchange is to be restored and rebuilt. A large office tower has been proposed to anchor it to the expanded Gateway Mall.

23rd Street

23rd is an irregular street that is broken up in many places. One such break was created by the

Pruitt–Igoe The Wendell O. Pruitt Homes and William Igoe Apartments, known together as Pruitt–Igoe (), were joint urban housing projects first occupied in 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. The complex consisted of 33 eleven-story high rises, d ...

site.

24th Street

24th Street has disappeared over time.

25th Street

25th Street appears to the north of downtown where Jefferson Avenue curves and creates space for another road.

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External links

St. Louis Street Index
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