Carl Baehr
City Streets

How a President’s Row Was Created

The South Side has six consecutive streets named after presidents, all but one Republican.

By - Jul 21st, 2020 09:28 am

The South Side has six consecutive streets named after presidents, all but one Republican. Back to the full article.

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Categories: City Streets, History

2 thoughts on “City Streets: How a President’s Row Was Created”

  1. Thomas Martinsen says:

    Thank you, Carl B.,

    for the informative report on 6 streets in our city which were named after presidents in particular time frames and places.

    Do you hear any grumbling about changing names of streets from the names of discredited former leaders to names of more popular and more recent leaders? For example, is there a call for, say, an OBAMA BOULEVARD?

  2. Carl Baehr says:

    @Thomas

    The most controversial street name issue now is the renaming of Miller Park Way since this is the last year the stadium will be called Miller Park. Brewers Boulevard and Brewers Way seem to be the top contenders. American Family Field Way would be kind of awkward.

    I can think of a half dozen streets that are named for bigots, criminals, or other undesirable characters but I haven’t heard of any movement to change them. That may change though with all of the current activity.

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