The following pages show the Street Changes done in 1906 in the City of Cleveland Ohio.
| The table on the left side of the pages show the OLD street name in alphabetical order with corresponding NEW street name(s). | The right side of the pages show the NEW street names in alphabetical order with the corresponding OLD names. |
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Ordinance No. 47575A - An Ordinance providing for the renaming of streets and the renumbering of houses to conform to one general system. Whereas, on account of the great extent of the City of Cleveland and the numerous thoroughfares without any particular system of designation making their location and naming complex and difficult, it is necessary to devise and enforce a comprehensive system for designating all throughfares within the limits of the City and a complete system of house numbering in keeping with its present designation; therefore,
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Cleveland, State of Ohio, that the names of all thoroughfares be changed or rearranged to conform with the following general system:
Section 2. GEOGRPHICAL DIVISION. All thoroughfares in the
section bounded by Lake Erie, easterly City Limits, Euclid Avenue,
and Ontario Street, shall have the suffix NE, meaning northeast,
added to the name of said thoroughfare. All thoroughfares in the
section bounded by Euclid Avenue, the easterly City limits, southerly
City limits, to the river, the river to Canal Street extended,
Canal street to Huron street and Ontario Street, shall have the
suffix SE meaning southeast, added to the name of said thoroughfare.
All thoroughfares in the section bounded by Lake Erie, Ontario
Street to Huron Street, Huron Street to the river, the river south
to the Cincinnati Slip, from Cincinnati Slip west to Lorain streets,
Lorain street to the city limits, the west City limits to Lake
Erie, shall have the suffix NW meaning northwest, added to the
name of said thoroughfare. All thoroughfares in the section bounded
by Ontario street by way of Vinegar Hill to Canal street, Canal
street to the river, the river south to the southerly City limits,
the southerly City limits and westerly City limits to Lorain street,
Lorain street to the river at Cincinnati Slip and north along
the river to Huron street, shall have suffix SW meaning southwest,
added to the name of said thoroughfare.
Section 3. CLASSIFICATION OF THOROUGHFARES. The term "Thoroughfare"
means all ways used or opened for public travel, whatever its
present designation. All thoroughfares running in a general east
and west direction shall be called avenues. All thoroughfares
running in a general north and south direction shall be called
streets. All diagonal thoroughfares shall be called roads. All
short or disconnected thoroughfares running in a general north
and south direction shall be called places. All short or disconnected
thoroughfares running in a general east and west direction shall
be called courts. All curved thoroughfares shall be called drives.
Section 4. All existing thoroughfares sall have their present
designation changed as follows:
UNDERSTANDABLE EXPLANATION by Laura Hine:
1. The NE, NW, SE, and SW will always tell you what section of the city a street is in, be it Northeast, Northwest, Southeast or Southwest.
2. If a street name was changed to a numbered street, then the second letter of NE, NW, SE, and SW will tell you what the street is called today in 2002. For instance, in the first example, Aaron Street was changed to 36th St. NE. Today, in 2002, this would be called East 36th St. For another example, Abram Street was changed to 16th St. SW. Today, in 2002, this street would be called West 16th Street.
3. The numbered streets were given their numbers based on their relationship to the Cuyahoga River. The first street to the west of the Cuyahoga River is West 1st Street. The second street to the west of the Cuyahoga River is West 2nd Street. The same applies to the east side of the river. The first street to the east of the Cuyahoga River is East 1st Street and the second street to the east of the Cuyahoga River is East 2nd Street and so on.
Al. = Alley
Ave.= Avenue
Ct. = Court
Pl. = Place
Rd. = Road
St. = Street
