Streets of St. Louis

[1] Streets of interest include: 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.

Originally "La Rue Missouri", it was one of the first named east to west streets in Colonial St. Louis.

Cole Street runs east–west from near the intersection of Dr. 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.

Named in honor of Clement Delor deTreget who founded the settlement which later became Carondelet, Missouri in 1767.

Prior to 1893 a section was called Termination Street as it marked out the northern border of the Carondelet Commons.

Though spelled with a "k" instead of a "c" it is named to commemorate Lake Itasca in Minnesota, the source of the Mississippi River.

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

The street is named in honor of St. Louis founder Pierre Laclède Liguest.

Named in recognition of René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle 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.

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.

The old armory of the 138th Infantry building and the old Famous-Barr warehouse are located on this section of Market St. 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 name in turn comes from a Native American term referring to the range 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.

O'Fallon Street runs east–west from Laclede's Landing 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.

Then it picks up again after the tracks, running west from Morgan Ford Road to Sublette Avenue in the Kingshighway Hills neighborhood.

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 olive.

No buildings front onto it, and it is generally used for garbage pickup, parking and loading and unloading of goods.

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