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ROTATION OF DENVER STREETS (with Meaning) The following information was obtained and re-organized from the book; Denver Streets: Names, Numbers, Locations, Logic by Phil H. Goodstein This book includes additional information on how the grid came together. Please email [email protected] with any corrections/additions found. Copy: 12-29-2016 Running East & West from Broadway South Early businessman who homesteaded West of Broadway and South of University of Denver Institutes of Higher Learning First Avenue. 2000 ASBURY AVE. 50 ARCHER PL. 2100 EVANS AVE.` 2700 YALE AVE. 100 BAYAUD AVE. 2200 WARREN AVE. 2800 AMHERST AVE. 150 MAPLE AVE. 2300 ILIFF AVE. 2900 BATES AVE. 200 CEDAR AVE. 2400 WESLEY AVE. 3000 CORNELL AVE. 250 BYERS PL. 2500 HARVARD AVE. 3100 DARTMOUTH 300 ALAMEDA AVE. 2600 VASSAR AVE. 3200 EASTMAN AVE. 3300 FLOYD AVE. 3400 GIRARD AVE. Alameda Avenue marked the city 3500 HAMPDEN AVE. limit until the town of South 3600 JEFFERSON AVE. Denver was annexed in 3700 KENYON AVE. 1894. Many of the town’s east- 3800 LEHIGH AVE. west avenues were named after 3900 MANSFIELD AVE. American states and 4000 NASSAU AVE. territories, though without any 4100 OXFORD AVE. clear pattern. 4200 PRINCETON AVE. 350 NEVADA PL. 4300 QUINCY AVE. 400 DAKOTA AVE. 4400 RADCLIFF AVE. 450 ALASKA PL. 4500 STANFORD AVE. 500 VIRGINIA AVE. 4600 TUFTS AVE. 600 CENTER AVE. 4700 UNION AVE. 700 EXPOSITION AVE. 800 OHIO AVE. 900 KENTUCKY AVE As the city expanded southward some 1000 TENNESSEE AVE. of the alphabetical system 1100 MISSISSIPPI AVE. disappeared in favor 1200 ARIZONA AVE. of names of streets from the west. 1300 LOUISIANA AVE. 1400 ARKANSAS AVE. 4800 LAYTON AVE. 1500 FLORIDA AVE 4900 CHENANGO AVE. 1600 IOWA AVE 5000 GRAND AVE. 1700 MEXICO AVE. 5100 BELLEVIEW AVE. 1800 COLORADO AVE. 1900 JEWELL AVE. Downtown Northwest from Broadway & Colfax “Diagonal Streets” Laid out parallel to the Platte River. 1 CHEYENNE PL. 2 CLEVELAND PL. 3 COURT PL. 4 TREMONT PL. 5 GLENARM PL. 6 WELTON 7 CALIFORNIA 8 STOUT 9 CHAMPA 10 CURTIS 11 ARAPAHOE 12 LAWRENCE 13 LARIMER 14 MARKET & WALNUT 15 BLAKE 16 WAZEE 17 WYNKOOP 18 WEWATTA 19 DELGANY 20 CHESTNUT PL. 21 BASSETT 23 WATER 24 PLATTE 25 CENTRAL 26 BOULDER 27 ERIE Running North & South from Broadway East “The Streets of Aurora” The Double Alphabet East of New double alphabet begins east of Yosemite Colorado Boulevard: “Places, Street in Aurora. People, and Plants” That town had originally named many of its Name of the first street in the roads after cities. series was a personal name or a It is regularly interrupted by arterials which geographic location. do not follow the logic of the system. The next street was a plant/tree. This continued three miles east to 90 AKRON 122 QUARI Yosemite, the city line at the 91 ALTON 123 QUENTIN time. 92 BEELER 124 RACINE 93 BOSTON 125 REVERE 41 ALBION 66 MAGNOLIA 94 CHESTER 126 SALEM 42 ASH 67 NIAGARA 95 CLINTON 127 SCRANTON 21 VINE 43 BELLAIRE 1 LINCOLN 68 NEWPORT 96 DALLAS 128 TROY 22 GAYLORD 44 BIRCH 2 SHERMAN 69 ONEIDA 97 DAYTON 129 TUCSON / TOLEDO 23 YORK 45 CLERMONT 3 GRANT 70 OLIVE 98 EMPORIA 130 URSULA 24 UNIVERSITY 46 CHERRY 4 LOGAN 71 PONTIAC 99 ELMIRA 131 UVALDA 24 JOSEPHINE 47 DEXTER 5 PENNSYLVANIA 72 POPLAR 100 FLORENCE 132 VAUGHN 25 COLUMBINE 48 DAHLIA 6 PEARL 73 QUEBEC 101 FULTON 133 VICTOR 26 ELIZABETH 49 EUDORA 7 WASHINGTON 74 QUINCE 102 GALENA 134 WHEELING 27 CLAYTON 50 ELM 8 CLARKSON 75 ROSLYN 103 GENEVA 135 WORCHESTER 28 DETROIT 51 FAIRFAX 9 EMERSON 76 ROSEMARY 104 HANOVER 136 XANADU 29 FILLMORE 52 FOREST 10 OGDEN 77 SYRACUSE 105 HAVANA 137 XAPARY / POTOMAC 30 MILWAUKEE 53 GLENCOE 11 CORONA 78 SPRUCE 106 IOLA 138 YOST/ABILENE 31 ST PAUL 54 GRAPE 12 DOWNING 79 TRENTON 107 IRONTON 139 YUBA / ATCHISON 32 STEELE 55 HUDSON 13 MARION 80 TAMARAC 108 JAMAICA 140 ZION / BILLINGS 33 ADAMS 56 HOLLY 14 LAFAYETTE 81 ULSTER 109 JOLIET 141 BLACKHAWK 34 COOK 57 IVANHOE 15 HUMBOLDT 82 UINTA 110 KENTON 142 CARSON 35 MADISON 58 IVY 16 FRANKLIN 83 VALENTIA 111 KINGSTON / KRAMER 143 CRYSTAL 36 MONROE 59 JERSEY 17 GILPIN 84 VERBENA 112 LANSING 144 DILLON 37 GARFIELD 60 JASMINE 18 WILLIAMS 85 WABASH 113 LIMA 145 SABLE 38 JACKSON 61 KEARNEY 19 HIGH 86 WILLOW 114 MACON 146 DEARBORN 39 HARRISON 62 KRAMERIA 20 RACE 87 XANTHIA 115 MOLINE 147 EAGLE 40 COLO. BLVD 63 LEYDEN 88 XENIA 116 NEWARK 148 ELKHART 64 LOCUST 89 YOSEMITE 117 NOME 149 ALTURA 65 MONACO 118 OAKLAND 150 FAIRPLAY 119 OSWEGO 151 FRASER 120 PARIS 152 GRANBY 121 PEORIA 153 CHAMBERS Running North & South from Broadway West “Alphabet West of “Great American Alphabet” Sheridan” This set of streets Generally honors great “Native American Alphabet” The street nomenclature denotes governors of Americans, especially authors, Tribes, connections and a was to honor United Colorado, pioneers of military figures, scientists, few changes. States senators, Supreme Jefferson County, and politicians, and explorers. Court justices, and flora. other politicians. 25 ALLCOTT 53 AMES 26 BRYANT 1 ACOMA 54 BENTON 27 CLAY 2 BANNOCK 55 CHASE 28 DECATUR 3 CHEROKEE 56 DEPEW 80 ALLISON 29 ELIOT 4 DELAWARE 57 EATON 81 AMMONS 30 FEDERAL 5 ELATI 58 FENTON 82 BALSAM 31 GROVE 6 FOX 59 GRAY 83 BRENTWOOD 32 HOOKER 7 GALAPAGO 60 HARLAN 84 CARR 33 IRVING 8 HURON 61 INGALLS 85 CODY 34 JULIAN 9 INCA 62 JAY 86 DOVER 35 KING 10 SANTA FE DR. (JASON) 63 KENDALL 87 DUDLEY 36 LOWELL 11 KALAMATH 64 LAMAR 88 ESTES 37 MEADE 12 LIPAN 65 MARSHALL 89 EVERETT 38 NEWTON 13 MARIPOSA 66 NEWLAND 90 FIELD 39 OSCEOLA 14 NAVAJO 67 OTIS 91 FLOWER 40 PERRY 15 OSAGE 68 PIERCE 92 GARRISON 41 QUITMAN 16 PECOS 69 QUAY 93 GARLAND 42 RALEIGH 17 QUIVAS 70 REED 94 HOLLAND 43 STUART 18 RARITAN 71 SAULSBERRY 95 HOYT 44 TENNYSON 19 SHOSHONE 72 TELLER 96 INDEPENDENCE 45 UTICA 20 TEJON 73 UPHAM 97 IRIS 46 VRAIN 21 UMATILLA 74 VANCE 98 JELLISON 47 WINONA 22 VALLEJO 75 WEBSTER 99 JOHNSON 48 WOLFF 23 WYANDOT 76 WADSWORTH 100 KIPLING 49 XAVIER 24 ZUNI 77 YUKON 50 YATES 78 YARROW 51 ZENOBIA 79 ZEPHYR 52 SHERIDAN Running East & West from Ellsworth North 50 IRVINGTON PL. 1500 COLFAX 2000 MONTVIEW 3200 MARTIN LUTHER KING BLVD. Downtown Northwest from Broadway and Colfax (Information obtained from: Denver Streets: Names, Numbers, Locations, Logic by Phil H. Goodstein) Block Name Meaning “Diagonal Streets” Laid out parallel to the Platte River. The Cheyenne Indians lived in eastern Colorado at the time of the Pikes Peak gold rush. Translated from the Dakota means 100 Cheyenne Place “those who speak a strange language”, “red talkers’, or “those who paint themselves red”. 200 Cleveland Place Grover Cleveland (President) The Arapahoe County Courthouse was located on this road 300 Court Place between 15th and 16th streets (Erected 1883/demolished 1933). Denver was the county seat until 1902. 400 Tremont Place The Tremont House was an early Auraria hotel. Glen Arm, Scotland (Named by William McGaa for what he claimed 500 Glenarm Place was his ancestral family home. 600 Welton N. W. Welton (A founder of Denver City) Named to denote that Denver was to be the new California as 700 California the center of a rich gold rush. Elisha P. Stout (A founder of Denver City and the first 800 Stout president of the Denver Town Company) Sioux for “beaver” or Ute word for “bear” Chama Indians of New Mexico 900 Champa Tewa for “here they have wrestled” or “red” Spanish for “lass or “little girl” 1000 Curtis Samuel S. Curtis (One of the founders of Denver City) 1100 Arapahoe Arapahoe County, Arapahoe Indians Charles A. Lawrence (Partner of William Larimer in 1200 Lawrence establishing Denver) William Larimer (Leader of the group that originally jumped 1300 Larimer Street the claim of the town St. Charles, Kansas Territory, and which founded Denver City) Market; Renamed in 1887 to reflect that it was home to a certain kind of market. 1400 Market & Walnut Walnut; Those who did not live on the prostitution stretch of Market Street wanted a different name. 1500 Blake Charles H. Blake (Pioneer Denver Merchant) Wazee is an Indian word of unknown meaning. 1600 Wazee Supposedly named for William McGaa’s mistress. Edward W. “Ned” Wynkoop (First sheriff of Arapahoe County and 1700 Wynkoop an organizer of the Denver Town Company) 1800 Wewatta William Mcgaa named the road for his Oglala Sioux wife. 1900 Delgany Named for a pioneer about whom virtually nothing is known. Originally named Williams street after Denver pioneer Andrew J. Williams, its moniker was changed to Chestnut place in 1888 2000 Chestnut Place to distinguish the road from Williams Street on Capital Hill where Williams lived. 2100 Bassett P.T. Bassett (Recorder of the Denver Town Company) Named for the presence of water (runs parallel to the Platte 2300 Water River). Named for the Platte River that it runs parallel to (Platte derives from the French word for flat, which is a translation 2400 Platte of an Indian name of the river, the ni bthaska, the flat river. Designated the central street of the Central Subdivision in 2500 Central 1881. Named for Central City. 2600 Boulder Boulder, CO 2700 Erie Erie, Colorado Downtown 1! Running East and West from Ellsworth North (Information obtained from: Denver Streets: Names, Numbers, Locations, Logic by Phil H. Goodstein) Block Name Meaning Lewis Ellsworth (Operated the city’s first horsecar 0 Ellsworth line) Changed to Irving Place in 1865 for the Irving 50 Irvington Place Investment Company.