Buffalo Street Name Changes

Present Name Former Name

Abbott Road Abbott’s Corners Plank Road Abbottsford Bessie Akron Alley Bliss Alexander St. Zurbucher Alma Ave. Kenilworth, Schultz, Beverley Amherst St. Ferry Amsterdam Manhattan Antwerp Bommer Archie Place Lutheran St. Ardmore Pascal Arizona Wyoming Arlington Wadsworth and Carmichael Sts Arsenal Gay Ashley Grand Ashton Pixley Austin St. Batavia St.

Bailey Ave. Williamsville Rd., Goodell Rd. Baltic Pink Alley Baltimore Liberty Barker Laurel Barraga Brinker (Scranton) Batavia St. North Smith Battery Place Canal Alley, Ham Alley Baynes Lawlin Place Beacon Hancock Beak St. Burwell Place Beatrice Daniels Beckwith South Sycamore Bedford University Bennett West Bennett Berkshire Hobart, Georgetown Berrick Alley Pratt Alley Bessemer Granger Best Cayuga Creek Rd Beverly Kenilworth Ave. Bingham Sloan and Sheehan Birch Pfauder Bissell Ave. Rhine St. Blaine Belmont Blanche Keith Block Bell Boehm Gissel, Yuba Bradley Hoyt Place Breckenridge Commercial, East Commercial Sts Brier Ehle Brinton St. Belmont Ave. Brinton Place Norman Ave. Britt Diamond Broadway Batavia 1 Buffalo Street Name Changes

Present Name Former Name

Brunck Bismarck St. Bryson Robert Burck Marjorie Burgard Willard Bush Clayton Busti Sixth, Front Butler Place Fitch Alley

California St. Michigan St. Calvin Galvin Canal St. Rock St, Cross St. Canton Alley Fakir Cantwell Brucella Carbon Alley Green St., Water St. Carroll St. Steuben St., Tan Alley Cary St. Carry Casimir St. Beer St. Castor Alley Gates Alley Cazenovia Whitmore Celtic Place Duckwitz St. Center St. Ropewalk St. Chadduck Ruth, Hewitt, Rutgers Cheektowaga St. Spencer St. Chelsea Place Miller Place Chestnut St. Willow St. Choate Ave. Springfield Church St. Stadnitski Ave. City Ship Canal Blackwell Canal ClareSt. Raze St. Clarence St. Fay St. Clay St. James St. Clayton St. Busch St. Coburg St. Burt Colchester Westchester Colonial Circle Bidwell Place Columbia St. Jackson St. Comet St. Crescent St. Commercial St Canal St. Commonwealth Ave. Roanoke Como Bloom St Comstock Calais, Lennox Condon St. Kertz St. Coolidge Ave. Sheffield Cordova St Camden St. Court St. Cazenovia Ave. Countess Randle St. Crestwood Exeter Crote Whitney Crowley Ave. Dana, Welland Culver Devonshire 2 Buffalo Street Name Changes

Present Name Former Name

Cunard Briarcliffe Custer St Sheridan St.

Dale St Jemison Dart St Otis St Dartmouth East Hertel Day’s Park Norris Place, Clifton Place Dearborn St. Niagara St. Deerfield Ave. Huntingdon Ave. Delaney Fitzgerald Delavan Ave. Gulf St, Grider Rd, Pine Hill Rd Demond Place Boston Alley Detroit St Bork St. Dewitt North Adams St. Dewey St. Forest, Newman Dickens Alley Orlando Alley Dillon St. Ricker St. Donaldson St Oriole St. Dorothy St. McKinley St. Douglas St. South Allen St. Drexel St. Joseph St. Duffield St. Center St. Duluth St. Bowen St. Dunbar St. Dewey St. Dundee St. Waldron St. Dunkirk Alley Hamlin Alley Dunn Place Lawrence Place Durrenburger Place Urban Alley

Earl Place Handel, Glass, and Smith Alleys East Amherst Berea, Wemple St East Delevan Grider St East Forest Ave. Newman, Forest Sts East Lovejoy Lovejoy (851 to city line) East Northrup Hillery Eastwood Place Humboldt Place Eden St. Marconi St. Edmunds St. Parnell St. Edna Place East Summer St. Edward St. Louis St., Walden Alley Edwin Place Goodell Alley Efner St. Christopher St Eighteenth St. Ripley St. Elgas St. Elos, Evelyn, Philadelphia Ellicott St. North and South Oneida St. Elmira Place Dougherty Alley, Seneca Place Elmwood Ave. North William, Oakland, Macpherson and Fremont Place Elmwood Ave., South McPherson, Mississauga, Webster, Putnam Sts. 3 Buffalo Street Name Changes

Present Name Former Name

Embassy St. Bennett Emerson St. Linden Ave. Emerson Place Gibson, Tomkins Sts Empire St. Harrison St. Emslie St. Otto St. Englewood Ave. Ely St. Erie St. Vollenhoven or Vallenhoven Ave. Erskine St Sugar St. Eureka Place German Alley Exchange St. Crow St.

Fairchild St Stanley Place Fargo Ave. Tenth St. Farmer St. North St. Fay St. Leo Ave. Federal St. Livingston Ave. Fernhill St. Gratiot St. Fillmore Ave. Walden, Waldron, East Sts, Adams Rd and Avenue A Fillmore Ferry, Amherst, Parade Fleming St. Norton St. Flint Alley Best Alley. Flower St. Lautz St. Fourteenth St. East St. Frankford St. East Glenwood St. Franklin St. Tuscarora St. Front Ave. Sixth St and Lake St. Fuhrmann Blvd Hamburg Turnpike (1934) Fulton St. Maria St.

Gates Circle Chapin Place Ganson St. Coatsworth Ave. Gallatin St. Cornell St. Galveston St. Jefferson Place Garner Ave. Annie Place Gelston St. Porter, North Porter Sts Genesee St. Busti Ave., Pine Hill Rd, East Delevan Genoa St. Belle St. Gerhardt St. Allen St. Glenwood Ave. Otsego St. Glor St, Elmwood , Schoharie, Gibson Sts. Goodyear Ave. Danube St. Gordon St. Richard, South Ogden Sts Grainger Place Elmhurst St. Grant St. part of Blossom St., Conjaquada Gratiot St Summit View Ave. Green St. Water St. Beak St Greenwood Place Emily St. Griswold St. Humboldt Place Grote St. Meldrum St. 4 Buffalo Street Name Changes

Present Name Former Name

Guernsey St. Chester St

Hagen St. Rumsey St. Ham Alley Canal Alley, Daney St. Hamburg Turnpike Buffalo and Hamburg Turnpike Hamilton St. Lock St. Hamlin Rd. Demond, Boston Hammond Alley Swiveler Hanover St. St. Joseph, Canal St. Harriet St. Weber St. Harrison St. Sommer St. Harvard Place Michigan, California Harvest St. Hopman St. Hayden St. Eckhardt St. Hazel St. Rohe St. Heath St. Morton, W. Northrup Hecla St. Byron St., Hennepin St. Euclid St. Henrietta St. Harrington St. Herkimer St. Jefferson St. Herman St. Camp St. Hersee Alley Koons Alley Hertel Ave. Bird, Van Allen Sts, Cornelius Creek Rd. Hewitt E. Hertel, Rutgers Highgate St. Alvin St. Hines St. Dalton St. Hinman St. Sheriff St. Holburn St. Windsor St. Holland Place. North Elm St. Homer St. Aldrich St. Hornung St. Schwartz St. Houghton St. Arlington St. Howlett St. Ullman St. Hoyt St. Bradley St. Hudson St. Delaware St. Hughes St. Parkway Ave. Hurlock Ave. East Winslow

Ideal St. Garfield St. Illinois St. Sarah St. Indian Church Road Winchester Indiana St. Mary St. Iroquois Place Roos Alley Iroquois St. Cleveland St. Irving Place Bowery St. Ithaca St. Dold St. Ivy St. Oakland St.

Jefferson St. Pollard St. Jewett Ave. Charlotte 5 Buffalo Street Name Changes

Present Name Former Name

Johnson Park Franklin and Washington Parks Grove St,. Johnson Pl., Fir St., Park Pl. Josie Place Josiah St. Joy Alley Marshall Alley

Kail St. Lewis St. Kenefick Waldrow St. Kenmore Ave. Town Line Rd. Kensington Ave. Steele St. Wilgus Tnpk, Ellicott Tnpk Keppel St. Fisher St. Ketchum Place Fifteenth St. Keystone St. Hoffman and Arthur Ave.S Kilburn St. Spaulding St. Kimberly St. Loveland St. Kirkpatrick St. Spencer Ave. Kosciusko St. North Smith St.

Lafayette Ave. Bouck, Batavia Sts. Laird St. Harold St. Lake St. Canal St., Dante, Cross, South Cedar Lake View Ave. Fifth St. Lannette Ave. Trestle St. Langfield Sugar Rd. Larkin St. Heacock St. LaSalle Ave. Iowa St. Lawrence Place Sixteenth St., Hawthorne Pl. Lehigh St. Edmunds St. Lexington Ave. Butler St. Lincoln Parkway North Lincoln, Park Lake Linden Ave. Algonquin St. Linwood Ave. Miller St. Lisbon St. Columbus Ave., Adeptus St. Livingston St. Cleveland, Iroquois Louisiana St. Clark St. Lowell Place Hodge St. Ludington St. Peckham Lutheran St. Lutheran Alley

Main St. Van Staphorst, Willink Ave., Buffalo and Williamsville Macadam Rd. Malsch St. Stephen Place Malta Place Compromise Alley Manchester St. Norwood Place Mandan St. Carter St. Manhattan St. Amsterdam St. Manitoba St. Oneida St. Marilla St. Peugeot St. Marigold St. Pleasant St. Marquette Place Milton Place 6 Buffalo Street Name Changes

Present Name Former Name

Mary St. Maria St. Masten St. Prospect, Cemetery May St. Doll Ave., Philip Maynard St. Webster St. Maywood St. Williams St. Macamley St. Thomas St. McClellan Circle Woodside Circle McKinley Parkway Boulevard, South Parkway Meadowview St. Park, Johnson Park Medford Place Harrison St. Melbourne St. Pacific St. Meldrum St. Whitney St. Melvin Place Sloan Place Memphis Alley Weste Alley Mendola St. Arlington St. Merrimac St. Hendrick St. Meteor Alley Anderson Alley Meyers St. Cotes St. Michigan St. Martin, Willow, Chestnut, Freeman Midvale St. Eichle St. Mildred St. Alexander St. Mills Alley Bliss Alley Milwaukee St. Colton St. Minnesota Ave. Summit Park, Minneapolis Mississippi St. Morgan, S. Elmwood, Lafayette St. Gull Mobile St. Seward St. Mohigan Ave. Liberty Ave. Montrose Ave. Cornell, Gallatin Sts Morgan St. Webster, Mississippi, Mississauga Morton Place Weaver Alley Myrtle St. Folsom St. Mystic St. Bismarck, Brauck or Brunck

Nebraska St. Jonathan St. Neptune St. Ketchum St. Newark Alley. Caldwell Newberg Ave. Greene St. Newfield St. South Newfield St. Niagara Blvd. Colvin St. Niagara St. Schimmelpennick St., Main St., Eight Norfolk St. Colorado St. Normal Ave. Thirteenth St. Norman St. Bristol St. Norris St. Cass St. North St. Guide Board Rd. North Park Bolton St. North Parker Crosby St. North Legion Dr. North Cazenovia Blvd. North Pine St. Bundy’s Alley 7 Buffalo Street Name Changes

Present Name Former Name

Northhampton St. Keller St., Puerner Ave. Northland Ave. Puffer St. Norwood Ave. Howard Ave.

Oakwood Place Cooper St. Oberlin Ave. Saint Louis Ave. Ocean Ave. Pacific Ave. O’Connell St. Sandusky St. O’Connor St. Lackawanna St. Ohio St. Hamburg Turnpike Olga Place Jerry St. Omaha Alley Burt Alley Oneida St. Hamilton, Bork Sts. Oregon Place Walter St. Orton Place Mulligan St. Oswego St. Lake, Busti Sts. Ozark St. Fischer St.

Packer St. Mill St. Paderewski Dr. Lovejoy (Emslie to Curtiss) Palos Place Harvard St. Parish St. Erie St. Parkdale St Blum, Preston, Tyron Sts Paul St. Forsyth St. Pavonia St. Wasick St. Pearl St. N. and S. Cayuga Sts. Pearl Place North Pearl St. Peekskill St. Stevens St. Pembina St. Grace Ave. Penfield St. Bidwell St. Peoria St. Thompson St. Perkins Place. Halloway St. Perry St. Beaver St. Pershing St. Berlin St. Persia St. Petrie St. Person St. Kuempel St. Phenix St. Henry St. Picard Alley Clinton Alley Piper St. Bank St. Plymouth Ave. 12 th , Hubbard, Adam Sts. Polk St. Elsheimer, Glenwood Pomeroy St. Leroy St. Pomona Place. Olive Place Portage St. Bayer St. Porter Ave. York, North, Guide Board Rd. Potomac Ave. Clinton Ave. Potters Road Potters Corners Road Poultney St. Pomeroy St. Pratt Alley Berrick alley Priess St. Ulmer St. 8 Buffalo Street Name Changes

Present Name Former Name

Prime St Dayton St. Princeton St. Weimar St Pritchard St. Indian Crescent Progressive St. Marlin, Michigan Sts. Prospect Ave. Ninth St. Providence St. Roland St. Pullman St. Olmstead St.

Quincey St. Miller St. (Linwood, Chelsea)

Radcliffe St. Larchmont, La Grande Railroad St. Mill St. Rano St. Rino Alley Rapin St. Zimmerman St. Rawlins St. Leo St, Fay St. Regina Place. Queens St. Remington St. Rapid Transit Republic St. Tecumseh St. Richlawn Ave. Euclid Ave. Richmond Ave. Rogers, The Avenue Ripley Place Eighteenth St. River St. Rock St. Riverside Norman St., See St. Rochester St. Smith St. Roesch St. North Park Roma St. Hickman St. Rosedale St. Evelyn, Teutsch, Ziegler Sts Rosemary St. Hawthorne St. Roseville St. Porter and Orr Sts. Ross St. Bleeker St. Rounds Ave. Lisbon, Columbus Sts. Royal St. Newell St. Rugby Place Lawrence Ave. Rumsey St. Hayden St.

St. Francis Hoffman Alley St. Johns’ Parkside Hearne St. Saint Michael Saint Louis St. Stephens ’Place Weston St. Samson St. Silverdale St. Sanders St. Sessions St. Sattler St. Princess St. Savoy St. Lennox, Cambria Sts. Sayre St. Logan St. (Marian, Zenner Sts?) Schauf St. Laurier St. Schlenker St. Prozeller St. Schoharie St. Gibson St. Schuyler St. South Canal St. Seattle St. Emerson, Linden, Tompkins Sts Seneca Place Dougherty’s Alley 9 Buffalo Street Name Changes

Present Name Former Name

Seneca St. Seneca Village Road, Seneca Mills Rd., Buffalo and Aurora Plank Rd. Seward St. Victoria St. Seymour St. North Canal, North Swan Sts. Shawnee Ave. Lexington Ave. Sheffield St. Coolidge St. Sherman St. German St. Shirley St. Wisconsin St. Sibley St. Bernard St. Sienkiewicz St. Stettenburg St. Sixteenth St Columbus, Union Sts Skillen St. Higgins St. Smith St. Lockwood St. South Cedar Sr. Taylor, Cross Sts, Kinney’s Alley South Crossman St. Briscoe, Beardsley South Domedion St. Stewart St. South Elmwood Ave. McPherson, Mississauga, Webster, Putnam Sts. South Park Ave. Ohio Abbott (from Elk to Triangle) Elk St., White’s Corners Plank Rd. South St. Maynard St. Southside Parkway South Park (Como to Seneca) Spencer St. Mary St. (Indiana?) Sprenger St. Spencer, Kirkpatrick Spillman St. Bill’s Place Starin Ave.(Kenmore to tracks) Oscar St. Staats St Schuyler St. State St. Ditch St. Stockbridge St. Bowdoin St. Sunset St. Alexander St. Superior St. Hamilton, Groben Sts., West Peckham?

Tamarack St. Lexington St. Shawnee, Butler Terrace Busti, Cazenovia Terr. Texas St. Johnson Ave. Thornton St. Westminster St. Timon St. Durrenburger St. Toledo St. Herbert St. Tracy St. Ontario St. Tremont St. Carmine St. Trenton St. Fifth, Lakeview Trinity St Delaware, Eureka, Sussex Pl., German St. Tupper St. Blume, Twelfth, Plymouth. Turner St. Onyx St.

Union St. Milnor and Mott Sts.

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Present Name Former Name

Verona St. Triangle Pl. Verplanck St. Clifton St. Vernon Place Vernon St. Victoria St. Charlotte St. Virginia Place Meech Aley Vulcan St. Jones St.

Warren St. Winslow St. Washington St. N. and S. Onondaga, Market Sts. Water St. Harbor St. Wayne St. South St. Weaver Ave. Scheu St., Colson Ave. Wecker St. Alexander St. Welland St. Dana St. Wellington St. Bronson St., Deseronto Wells Ave. Bailey St. Welmont St North Oak St. Wende St. Walther St. West Ave. Eleventh, Washington, North Washington Sts. West Delevan Ave. 17 th , Gulf St. West Parade Ave. Keller St. West Peckham St. Hinchley St. West Perry St. Dayton St. Whitney Place Palmer St. Wildwood Ave. Helen St Wilkeson St. Hospital, Budd, Ohio Sts. Willett St. Stanley St. (Fairchild St.) William St. (Broadway to Michigan) Vine St. Wilmer Ave. Bailey Ave. Winchester Ave. Bitter St. Winchester Ave. Indian Church Road. Wingate St. Montacute St. Winspear Ave. Wilmer St, Wells St. Winthrop Place Lewis Place Wisconsin St. Claremont St. Wood St. Rhine, Bissell, Wagner Sts Woodbridge St Wood St. Woodlawn Ave. Barr St. Woodside Ave. Indian Trail, Rochester, Inkerman Woodward Ave. Davis St. Worcester St. Highland Place

Yale St. Mugler St. Yuba Place Gisel St.

Zenner St. Logan St.

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Sources

Grosvenor Room Local History File

Buffalo *F129 .B8 B96 p. 145 Souvenir Historical Book, Buffalo’s 125 th Anniversary World Port Celebration, 1832-1957 [Buffalo, NY: 1957]

Buffalo TE325 .B8 B93 Index to Records of Streets, Public Grounds, Waterways, Railroads, Gas Companies, Water Works, etc., of the City of Buffalo, from 1814 to 1896 Buffalo, NY: Bureau of Engineering, 1896

Compiled by Susan Kirwan, 10/26/05

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