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The streets of St. Louis, Missouri, United States, and the surrounding area of
Greater St. Louis Greater St. Louis is a bi-state metropolitan area that completely surrounds and includes the independent city of St. Louis, the principal city. It includes parts of both Missouri and Illinois. The city core is on the Mississippi Riverfront on t ...
are under the jurisdiction of the City of St. Louis Street Departmen

According to the Streets Division, there are of
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s and of alleys within the city. Streets of interest include:


Arsenal Street

Arsenal Street runs east–west in South St. Louis from South 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 acquired its name from the
St. Louis Arsenal The St. Louis Arsenal is a large complex of federal military weapons and ammunition storage buildings operated by the United States Air Force in St. Louis, Missouri. During the American Civil War, the St. Louis arsenal's contents were transferred ...
, 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 Eichelberger Street in the
Bevo Mill Bevo Mill is a neighborhood located in south St. Louis, Missouri. Populace The Bevo Mill area is direct to the west of the neighborhood of Dutchtown, which was a major center of German settlement in St. Louis in the mid-nineteenth century. Aft ...
and Holly Hills neighborhoods to South Broadway in the neighborhood of Carondelet. It is named after Frederick Bates, the second governor of Missouri.


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. Biddle Street was named after area landowners, Major Thomas Biddle and Mrs. Anne Biddle, the sister of
Bryan Mullanphy Bryan Mullanphy (born 1809 in Baltimore, Maryland; died June 15, 1851 in St. Louis, Missouri) was the tenth Mayor of St. Louis, serving from 1847 to 1848. Bryan Mullanphy was the son of John Mullanphy, an Irish immigrant who became a wealthy ...
the tenth
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. It was previously called Willow Street.


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 JeffVanderLou (JVL) is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The neighborhood is situated between North Vandeventer Avenue on the northwest, Natural Bridge Avenue on the northeast, North Jefferson Avenue on the East, Delmar Boulevard on the sout ...
. It is named after Judge William C. Carr, who in 1813 built the first
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dwelling in St Louis. In 1822, Carr Street formed part of the northern boundary of the city.


Cherokee Street

Cherokee Streets runs east–west in South City from Grand Boulevard to South Broadway. It is a historically economically significant area and a culturally significant area in contemporary times.


Chestnut Street

Chestnut Street runs east–west street in downtown St Louis and is the northern boundary of the Gateway Mall. Originally "La Rue Missouri", it was one of the first named east to west streets in Colonial St. Louis. After the American takeover of the city in 1804 the name was changed to North "A" Street. In 1826, in a general planning scheme to name east–west streets after trees, it became "Chesnut". The spelling was altered to its current form "Chestnut" in 1893.


Chippewa Street

Chippewa Street runs east–west from the neighborhoods of Marine Villa, Gravois Park and Dutchtown to the neighborhoods of Lindenwood Park and
St. Louis Hills St. Louis Hills is a neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri. The neighborhood, which is home to the Chippewa location of Ted Drewes Frozen Custard, is situated in the southwest part of St. Louis. It is bounded by Chippewa Street to the northwest a ...
. The street is named after the Chippewa people. The street is part of Missouri Route 366, and from Gravois Road to the west city limits (where it continues as Watson Road), it was part of
US Route 66 U.S. Route 66 or U.S. Highway 66 (US 66 or Route 66) was one of the original highways in the United States Numbered Highway System. It was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year. The h ...
.


Cole Street

Cole Street runs east–west from near the intersection of Dr. Martin Luther King Drive and Jefferson Avenue in the neighborhoods of
Grand Center The Grand Center Arts District is located in the Midtown St. Louis Historic District (on the National Register of Historic Places) north of the Saint Louis University campus. Referred to colloquially as Grand Center, the neighborhood's formal na ...
and
Midtown St. Louis Midtown is a neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri. It is located west of the city riverfront at the intersection of Grand and Lindell Boulevards. It is home to the campus of Saint Louis University and the Grand Center Arts District. Historic stat ...
, to North Broadway near Downtown St. Louis and the Near North Riverfront. Cole Street was once called Wash Street; the name changed sometime after 1900, when documents show that
American Arithmometer Company The American Arithmometer Company was organized in St. Louis, Missouri in 1886 by William S. Burroughs. Born in Rochester, New York in 1855, after receiving a high school education in 1881 and working in a bank, for health reasons he moved south. ...
(later the Burroughs Corporation), moved from The LaSalle Building at 509 Olive Street to 1212 Wash Street. Today, 1212 Cole Street is the location of the employee
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for KDNL-TV.


Commercial Street

Commercial Street is a cobblestone street that runs north–south in
Laclede's Landing Laclede's Landing (), colloquially "the Landing", is a small urban historic district in St. Louis, Missouri. It marks the northern part of the original settlement founded by the Frenchman Pierre Laclède, whose landing on the riverside the placenam ...
near Gateway Arch National Park.


Delor Street

Delor Street runs east–west from McCausland Avenue in
St. Louis Hills St. Louis Hills is a neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri. The neighborhood, which is home to the Chippewa location of Ted Drewes Frozen Custard, is situated in the southwest part of St. Louis. It is bounded by Chippewa Street to the northwest a ...
, to Nebraska Avenue in the neighborhoods of Mount Pleasant and Carondelet. Named in honor of Clement Delor deTreget who founded the settlement which later became
Carondelet, Missouri Carondelet is a neighborhood in the extreme southeastern portion of St. Louis, Missouri. It was incorporated as an independent city in 1851 and was annexed by the City of St. Louis in 1870. As of the 2000 Census, the neighborhood has a popula ...
in 1767. Prior to 1893 a section was called Termination Street as it marked out the northern border of the Carondelet Commons.


Germania Street

Germania Street runs from Gravois Avenue along the River Des Peres in the neighborhood of
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to Alabama Street in the neighborhood of Carondelet. The name refers to a
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of the
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nation.


Hall Street

Hall Street runs north–south in North St. Louis from Riverview Drive in the neighborhood of Baden to East Grand Boulevard in the Near North Riverfront neighborhood. Named after Edward Hall, a Missouri River ferry operator.


Itaska Street

Itaska Street runs from McCausland Street in the neighborhood of
St. Louis Hills St. Louis Hills is a neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri. The neighborhood, which is home to the Chippewa location of Ted Drewes Frozen Custard, is situated in the southwest part of St. Louis. It is bounded by Chippewa Street to the northwest a ...
to South Broadway in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood. Though spelled with a "k" instead of a "c" it is named to commemorate Lake Itasca in Minnesota, the source of the Mississippi River.


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. It is named for Keokuk a leader of the Sauk Native American people who refused to aid the British in the War of 1812.


Laclede Avenue

Laclede Avenue runs from east to west starting in Midtown, through the Central West End, and stopping at
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. Laclede Avenue demarcates the official division line between north and south St. Louis. Named in honor of St. Louis' founder Pierre Laclede Liguest.


La Salle Street

La Salle Street runs east–west from South Fourth Street through the neighborhoods of Kosciusko,
LaSalle Park LaSalle Park is an integral part of the three- neighborhood "Old Frenchtown" area—LaSalle Park, Lafayette Square and Soulard—bordering the southern edge of downtown St. Louis. It was formed as a "new" neighborhood, legally distinct from the ...
, Lafayette Square, Gate District, and
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to South Spring Avenue. Named in recognition of
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (; November 22, 1643 – March 19, 1687), was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, ...
an explorer of the Mississippi Valley working for the French government to collect information about developing a French empire in the lands of North America. La Salle traveled down the Mississippi River past the future site of St. Louis in 1682.


Locust Street

Locust Street runs east–west from North Broadway in Downtown St. Louis to North Theresa Avevue in the
Grand Center The Grand Center Arts District is located in the Midtown St. Louis Historic District (on the National Register of Historic Places) north of the Saint Louis University campus. Referred to colloquially as Grand Center, the neighborhood's formal na ...
neighborhood.


Lynch Street

Lynch Street is the northern boundary of what was a long narrow strip of land in the Petit Prairie section of St. Louis common land named after William A. Lynch, who developed the area, which was called Labadie and Lynch's Addition in 1856. It begins at South Second Street in the Kosciusko neighborhood, runs through
Soulard __NOTOC__ Soulard ( ) is a historic neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri. It is the home of Soulard Farmers Market, the oldest farmers' market west of the Mississippi River. Soulard is one of ten certified local historic districts in the city of ...
,
Benton Park Benton Park is a neighborhood in southside St. Louis, Missouri, just west of the Soulard neighborhood. The official boundaries of the area are Gravois Avenue on the north, Cherokee Street on the south, I-55 on the east, and Jefferson Avenue o ...
, Benton Park West, and Fox Park and ends at Pennsylvania Avenue in the Tower Grove East neighborhood.


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. There is also a small stretch of Market St. that runs between Prospect Ave. and South Vandeventer Ave. This section is the only part of Market St. that is south of Highway 40/Interstate 64. The old armory of the 138th Infantry building and the old
Famous-Barr The Famous-Barr Co. (originally Famous and Barr Co.) was a division of Macy's, Inc. (formerly Federated Department Stores). Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, in the Railway Exchange Building, it was the flagship store of The May Department Sto ...
warehouse are located on this section of Market St.


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. Named for the
Meramec River The Meramec River (), sometimes spelled Maramec River, is one of the longest free-flowing waterways in the U.S. state of Missouri, draining Blanc, Caldwell, and Hawk. "Location" while wandering Blanc, Caldwell, and Hawk. "Executive Summary" fr ...
the name in turn comes from a Native American term referring to the
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of catfish in the waters, and a more unusual fish species, the very large and ancient Paddlefish sometimes called a "Spoonbill Catfish" for its long and flat snout.


Miami Street

Miami Street has four separated east–west stretches. From the east, from Broadway in the Marine Villa neighborhood to the intersection of Grand Boulevard and Gravois Avenue in the Gravois Park neighborhood. Then it picks up again running east–west from Gustine Avenue to Bent Avenue. Next it runs east–west from Morganford Road to Tholozan Avenue. Finally, it runs east–west from Oleatha Avenue to Sublette Avenue in the Kingshighway Hills neighborhood. Miami Street was named for the Miami River and the Miami people of Ohio in the 1850s.


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. The street was named for the new Nebraska Territory, for when the city street grid was expanded in the 1850s Nebraska was not yet a state. The name Nebraska itself comes from an Oto language word meaning "flat or spreading water" that was used to describe the Platte river, a tributary of the Missouri river and in turn the Mississippi.


O'Fallon Street

O'Fallon Street runs east–west from
Laclede's Landing Laclede's Landing (), colloquially "the Landing", is a small urban historic district in St. Louis, Missouri. It marks the northern part of the original settlement founded by the Frenchman Pierre Laclède, whose landing on the riverside the placenam ...
in Downtown St. Louis to Jefferson Avenue. The street was named after John O'Fallon a soldier, merchant, and later investor in and president of several early railroads built through St. Louis.


Oleatha Avenue

Oleatha Avenue has two east–west stretches, separated by rail tracks. It runs east–west from Gustine Avenue in the Tower Grove South neighborhood to Bent Avenue. Then it picks up again after the tracks, running west from Morgan Ford Road to Sublette Avenue in the Kingshighway Hills neighborhood.


Olive Street

Olive Street runs east–west from Downtown St. Louis to the northern part of the Central West End. In 1821 this road was first named "North C Street", in 1826 it was renamed after the hardy Mediterranean tree and its well-known fruit, the
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. During the 1850s, the road's extension west of Eighteenth Street was called the Olive Street
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due to its wooden construction.


Palm Street

Palm Street runs north–south from the neighborhood of Near North Riverfront on the east to the intersection near
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and
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in the west near the
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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. Parnell Street is named to honor Charles Stewart Parnell the prominent Irish parliamentarian, political leader, and supporter of Ireland's return to independence from England.


Pestalozzi Street

Pestalozzi runs east–west from
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through
Benton Park Benton Park is a neighborhood in southside St. Louis, Missouri, just west of the Soulard neighborhood. The official boundaries of the area are Gravois Avenue on the north, Cherokee Street on the south, I-55 on the east, and Jefferson Avenue o ...
and Tower Grove East to
Tower Grove Park Tower Grove Park is a municipal park in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. Most of its land was donated to the city by Henry Shaw in 1868. It is on 289 acres (1.17 km²) adjacent to the Missouri Botanical Garden, another of Shaw's legacies. I ...
in the South Grand area. The street is named in honor of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, the Swiss educational reformer whose theory and practices influenced modern elementary education.


Pine Street

Pine Street runs east–west from Memorial Drive in Downtown St. Louis to Jefferson Avenue in Downtown West, where it turns into a service entrance at the Wells Fargo campus. It then runs for another block Beaumont Street and Leffingwell Avenue, before being interrupted again. Formerly, it connected to West Pine Boulevard in the Central West End (which runs from Vandeventer Avenue to Forest Park). Between Pine Street and West Pine Boulevard are the campuses of
Harris–Stowe State University Harris–Stowe State University is a historically black public university in St. Louis, Missouri. The university offers 50 majors, minors, and certificate programs in education, business, and arts & sciences. It is a member-school of the Thurgoo ...
and
Saint Louis University Saint Louis University (SLU) is a private Jesuit research university with campuses in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, and Madrid, Spain. Founded in 1818 by Louis William Valentine DuBourg, it is the oldest university west of the Mississip ...
. The former path of Pine Street is preserved as the West Pine Mall, the major pedestrian route through the campus of Saint Louis University.


Salisbury Street

Salisbury Street is an east–west street in the Hyde Park neighborhood of St. Louis. It is named after James Salisbury, American civil war doctor, and the creator of the
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as part of a diet intended to reduce the incidence of diarrhea among soldiers.


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
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's album ''
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Compton Heights Compton Heights is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. It is bordered by Interstate 44 to the north, Nebraska Avenue to the east, Shenandoah Avenue to the south, and Grand Boulevard to the west. Compton Hill Reservoir Park, home to the landmar ...
and Tower Grove East. Named after Sarah Sidney Carr Lane, the daughter of Dr.
William Carr Lane William Carr Lane (December 1, 1789January 6, 1863) was a doctor and the first mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, serving from 1823 to 1829 and 1837 to 1840. He later served as Governor of New Mexico Territory, from 1852 to 1853. Born in Fayette C ...
the first mayor of St. Louis and a practicing physician.


St. Charles Street

St. Charles Street runs east–west in three segments in the
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, and Downtown West neighborhoods. It was formerly a continuous street, but has been interrupted by development. Its first segment is between Fourth Street and Broadway in where it is interrupted for three blocks by Stiffel, Nicolas and Co., the Merchandise Exchange Building, and the US Bank building, respectively. It appears again between Eighth Street and Ninth Street, where it runs alongside the Renaissance Hotel on the north and the Orpheum Theater and the Roberts Mayfair Hotel on the south. It is interrupted here by the parking garage for the Renaissance Hotel. St. Charles Street's final segment runs from 10th Street to Jefferson Avenue. The Mayfair Hotel is also notable for the creation of
Mayfair salad dressing Mayfair salad dressing is a salad dressing incorporating anchovies, created at the Mayfair Hotel in downtown St. Louis. It was first served in the hotel's restaurant, The Mayfair Room, the first five-star restaurant in Missouri, which featured E ...
. Despite being a named street, Saint Charles Street is little more than an alley. No buildings front onto it, and it is generally used for garbage pickup, parking and loading and unloading of goods.


Thomas Street

Thomas Street runs from the intersection of Martin Luther King Drive and Compton Avenue to Jefferson Avenue in the neighborhood of
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. It is named in memory of James S. Thomas the 19th mayor of St. Louis.


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. The street commemorates the incorporation of the Utah Territory in 1850. The name Utah comes from the Ute people and a river of that same name documented by explorer
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.


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.


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