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Streets which form the northern and southern boundaries of the Cabanne Area (the origin of Visitation Park Neighborhood) were originally principal roads from St. Louis to The West.
Delmar was Bonhomme Road and later a part of the Olive Street plank road into the County. On the northern side was Easton Avenue, named after St. Louis' first postmaster, Rufus Easton. Historically, it was the road to St. Charles and the eastern section of the old Santa Fe Trail, a Gateway to the West.
Click a street name below to learn its history.
| Streets | History |
| Arlington Avenue | John W. Burd was a land owner who is responsible for several street names in the area in addition to his own. Clara and Florence (now Belt) were named for his daughters and Arlington was named for his Arlington Grove subdivision. Back |
| Bartmer Avenue | Is named for Henry W. Bartmer, an early land holder. Back |
| Belt Avenue | John W. Burd was a land owner who is responsible for several street names in the area in addition to his own. Clara and Florence (now Belt) were named for his daughters and Arlington was named for his Arlington Grove subdivision. Belt Avenue had its beginning in Henry Belt's subdivision, northward from Delmar Boulevard. Back |
| Beverly Place | (1905) Back |
| Cabanne Avenue | Cabanne Avenue commemorates Dr. John S. Cabanne, grandson of Jean Pierre Cabanne, and the subdivider of Cabanne Place. Back |
| Clemens Avenue | Mrs. Eliza Clemens, widow of James Clemens, named streets within her subdivision after herself and her two daughters. Official Landmarks- City of St. Louis James L. Clemens House 1860 November 23, 1971 Back |
| Delmar Boulevard | Streets which form the northern and southern boundaries of the Cabanne area were originally principal roads from St. Louis to The West. Back |
| Enright Avenue | Mrs. Eliza Clemens, widow of James Clemens, named streets within her subdivision after herself and her two daughters, Catherine Cates and Alice Von Versen. The latter street was renamed Enright after one of the first St. Louis soldiers killed in World War I. Back |
| Hodiamont Avenue | Etzel Avenue is named for Susan R. Etzel in land subdivided near Hodiamont Avenue. That street is named for Emanuel de Hodiamont, a one-time owner of land where the Hodiamont streetcar right-of way ran in later years. (In 1907 Citywide transit system’s right-of-way came to be called the Suburban tracks and finally the Hodiamont streetcar line. This was the last streetcar line remaining at the time of its abandonment in 1966) Back |
| Maple Avenue | Maple Avenue was formerly La Barge Avenue and the northern boundary of the Papin tract. Back |
| Savoy Court | (1909) Back |
| Union Boulevard | Union Boulevard was so-named in Civil War days by Governor Gamble and other Northern sympathizers. It was originally called Second Kingshighway. The name Kingshighway is an English translation of the French Route de Roi, a name given by the French to principal roads bounding commonfields, in this case, the western limit of the Prairie des Noyers. During the 1870's and early 1880's, the race track of the St. Louis Jockey and Trotting Club was located in the tract bounded by Kingshighway and Page, Union and Easton Avenues. Back |
| Vernon Avenue | Back |
| Winderemere Place | A private part of Survey 378 and was developed in its present form beginning in 1895 by Thomas Wright. Back |
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