Grand Rapids, Mi
All Street Index to Public Schools
I have tried to identify every street adjacent to every school. And I have indicated the major intersection near those schools hidden away that I can never find. Just realized that those schools I know like Coit and Eastern, I didn't need to locate the major intersections.
In 1850 City Schools were numbered in chronological order, sort of.
In 1873, streets running E/W were designated West if west of the
river
streets running N/S were designated North or South of Bridge Street
streets running E/W were designated East if east of the river
streets running N/S were designated North or South of Fulton Street.
House numbers were willy-nilly. And locations were often given in reference to street corners.
In 1883 when the local #13 school was scheduled to be built, schools were renamed for their street.
In 1912, the City adopted the quadrant system.
All streets running N/S were avenues while all streets running E/W were streets.
The quadrant dividing point is the corner of Division Avenue and Fulton Street.
House numbers are precisely assigned. Many school names and addresses were
therefore changed.
Even before the 1960's schools were being put into City parks. That way the school board didn't have to build a playground. Ruined the park for everyone else. So the school was named for the park it ruined.
Now schools are being given Politically Correct names which make absolutely no sense. I am not attempting to locate those.
My Temporary file won't open but these schools all date from around 1880-1920.
City street name changes 1857-2000
3rd bet Turner and Broadway Union
4th bet Turner and Broadway Union
3 Mile at Plainfield, near Wellerwood
4 Mile at Coit, near North Park
7th at Fairfield Shawmut Hills
36th at Kalamazoo, near Sherwood Park
Aberdeen at Diamond Aberdeen
Aberdeen at Ball Huff
Adams at Kalamazoo Park
Alexander at Iroquois Ottawa High
Alger at Madison Ken O Sha - Brookside
Alger at Blaine Alger
Alger at Eastern Alger
Alpine at Myrtle Harrison Park
Ann at Lafayette Palmer
Arthur ends at Lyon Hillcrest
Antoine Campau
Baldwin at Congress Congress
Baltimore at Michigan Michigan Oak
Ball at Aberdeen Huff
Ball at Cedar Burr Oak
Barfield Ridgemoor
Baxter at the end of Dolbee Baxter
Bemis at Diamond Baxter
Blaine at Evergreen Oakdale
Blaine at Alger Alger
Bostwick bet Lyon and Fountain Davis Tech, Junior College
Breton and Burton near Ridgemoor
Bridge E at Division North Division
Bridge E West of College East Bridge
Bridge and Mount Mercy Westwood
Broadway bet 3rd and 4th Union
Broadway and Crosby Temporary
Brown at Buchanan Buchanan
Buchanan at Brown Buchanan
Buchanan at Cutler Burton
Buchanan at Griggs Buchanan
Burton and Breton near Roosevelt
Burton and Rosewood Ottawa new site -Ridgeview Jr HI
Burton at Chesaning Shawnee Park
Cadillac bet Alexander and Fisk Ottawa High
California Lexington
Cedar at Ball Burr Oak
Century, Vries off Roosevelt
Chamberlain at South Hampton Sherwood Park
Chatham Straight
Cheney at Wellerwood Wellerwood
Cheney bet Elmdale and North Park North Park
Cherry East of Eastern D. A. Blodgett Home for Children
Chesaning at Burton Shawnee Park
Clifton Central 1911
Coit and 4 mile, near North Park
Coit at Swensberg Riverside
Coit at Trowbridge Coit
Coit at Knapp Vacant Lot
Coit off on Russwood Crestview
Coldbrook at Ionia North Ionia
College Ave NE 159 Fountain
College at Dickinson Dickison
Collindale at Lk Mich, near Shawmut Hills
Comstock Blvd at Oakwood Riverside
Congress at Baldwin Congress
Cottage Grove at Marshall Oakdale
Covell at 7th near Oakleigh Elem
Covell at Milford Covell
Cutler at Buchanan Burton
Curve at Kensington Kensington
Darwin at Kirtland Burton
Delaware Madison
Diamond Pl at Lake Dr Congress
Diamond St at Bemis Baxter
Diamond St at Fountain Diamond
Dickinson at College Dickison
Division at Ken-O-Sha Ken O Sha - Brookside
Division bet Bartlett and Goodrich South Division
Division St S South Division
Division Ave S 255 South Division
Division N 234 North Divisionl
Division S at Brown Temporary
Division S near Hall Temporary
Division S at Stewart Temporary
Eastern at Malta Eastern
Eastern at Alger Alger
Edna at Marshall Alger
Eleanor bet Swensberg and Prospect Riverside Jr Hi
Elmdale, by on Cheney North Park
Emerald at Evelyn Aberdeen
Godwing at Griggs Dickison
Griggs at Godwin Dickison
Griggs at Sylvan Mulick Park
Elgin at Salem South High
Ellsworth Temporary
Emerald at Spencer Kent Hills
Eureka at Logan Sigsbee
Evergreen at Blaine Oakdale
Fairfield at 7th Shawmut Hills
First at Turner Union Primary
Finney at Wealthy Finney
Fisk at Iroquois Ottawa High
Fountain 421 ST NE Central High School 1911, Junior College
Fountain St E near 421 Fountain
Fountain by Bostwick Davis Tech, Junior College
Fountain at Houseman Houseman Field
Fountain at Diamond Diamond
Franklin at Ionia South Ionia
Franklin at Madison Madison
Franklin at Oakland Franklin
Frederick at Leonard Walker
Fuller NE at Fulton Park
Fuller SE at Adams Park
Fuller SE at Sigsbee Sigsbee
Fuller NE at Spencer NEJH
Fuller NE at Race Service Bldg
Fuller at Knapp Huff
Fulton NE at Fuller Park
Houseman at Fountain Houseman Field
Garfield and W Leonard Temporary
Gold at Veto Lexington
Goldsboro Central 1911
Gordon at Westend Oakleigh Elem
Graceland at Oakwood Fairmount
Graceland at Sinclair Fairmount
Grandville, up from Grandville
Grandville at Hall Hall
Grandville at Shamrock Hall
Grandville at Roosevelt Roosevelt
Griggs bet Sylvan and Rosewood Mulick Park
Griggs at Buchanan Buchanan
Hall at Grandville Hall
Hall at Jefferson South High
Henry at Logan Henry
Indiana and Jackson Sibley
Indiana and Dayton Straight
Inverness bet Burning Tree and Barfield Ridgemoor
Ionia at Coldbrook North Ionia
Ionia at Franklin South Ionia
Ionia at Antoine Campau
Iroquois bet Alexander and Fisk Ottawa High
Jackson and Indiana Sibley
James at Logan Henry
Jefferson Avenue Jefferson
Jefferson Street Lexington
Jefferson at Hall South High
Jennette at Seventh Stocking - Seventh
Kalamazoo at Oakdale Oakdale
Kensington at Curve Kensington
Kalamazoo at 36th near Sherwood Park
Kirtland at Darwin Burton
Knapp at Warren (Fuller) Huff
Lafayette at Ann Palmer
Lafayette at Palmer Palmer
Lafayette at Wealthy VandenBerg
Lake Dr at Diamond Pl Congress
Lake Mich Dr at Collindale, near Shawmut Hills
Lane at Sibley Sibley
Laughlin at Trail Dr C A Frost
Leonard east of Remembrance C A Frost
Leonard at Frederick Walker
Leonard at Widdicomb Widdicomb
Leonard at Quarry West Leonard
Leonard at Taylor Coldbrook
Leonard at North East Leonard
Leonard at Maryland Beckwith
Leonard at Oakleigh Oakleigh Jr Hi
Lexington at California Lexington
Livingston at Trowbridge Coit
Logan Henry
Logan at Eureka Sigsbee
Lyon at Ransom Central 1894 Good - Strong Jr Hi
Lyon by Bostwick Davis Tech - Junior College
Lyon at Arthur Hillcrest
Madison Ave Temporary
Madison at Alger Ken O Sha
Madison at Franklin Madison
Madison bet. Worden/Prince Madison
Malta at Emerald Eastern
Marshall at Cottage Grove Oakdale
Marshall at Edna Alger
Maryland ends at Leonard Beckwith
Michigan Temporary
Michigan at Division North Division
Michigan W/of College East Bridge
Michigan at Plymouth Michigan Oak
Michigan at Baltimore Michigan Oak
Milford at Covell Covell
Mount Mercy bet. Bridge and Tremont Westwood
Muskegon at Davis Harrison
Myrtle at Muskegon Harrison, West Leonard
North Park at Cheney North Park
Norwood at Wealthy Lake
Oakdale nr Kazoo Oakdale
Oakland at Franklin Franklin
Oakleigh at Leonard Oakleigh Jr Hi
Oakwood at Graceland Fairmount
Oakwood at Comstock Blvd Riverside
Ottawa At Pearl Temporary
Palmer at Lafayette Palmer
Pine at First Pine
Plainfield at Lafayette Plainfield
Plainfield at Sweet Creston
Plainfield at 3 Mile, near Wellerwood
Pleasant Grandville
Plymouth at Fuller Michigan Oak
Prospect at Eleanor Riverside Jr Hi
Race at Fuller Service Bldg
Race at Skory Service Bldg
Ransom Junior College - Central 1894 Good -Strong Jr Hi
Roosevelt, on Vries Roosevelt
Rosewood at Griggs Mulick Park
Russwood nr Coit Crestview
Ryerson Campau
Salem at Elgin South High
Second St Grandville
Seventh at Covell Oakleigh Elem
Shamrock at Grandville Hall
Seventh at Jennette Seventh
Sheldon at Delaware Sheldon
Sheldon at Elder Ct Sheldon
Sibley at Lane Sibley
Sigsbee at Fuller Sigsbee
Sinclair at Graceland Fairmount
Skory at Race Service Bldg
South Hampton at Chamberlain Sherwood Park
Spencer at Emerald Kent Hills
Spencer ends at Fuller NEJH
Spring St renamed Commerce South Division
Stocking Stocking
Straight at Chatham Straight
Straight at Watson Straight
Swensberg at Coit Riverside
Swensberg at Eleanor Riverside Jr Hi
Sweet at Plainfield Creston
Sylvan at Griggs Mulick Park
Taylor at Walbridge North Ionia
Tremont Union latest
Tremont at Mount Mercy Sherwood Park
Trowbridge at Livingston Coit
Turner bet. 3rd and 4th Union
Turner bet. 11th and Leonard Turner
Veto at Gold Lexington
Roosevelt and Grandville Roosevelt
Vries bet Roosevelt and Century Roosevelt
Walker at Fremont Stocking
Walbridge at Taylor North Ionia
Warren at Knapp Huff
Watson at Straight Straight
Weathly at Finney Finney
Wealthy at Lafayette VandenBerg
Wealthy at Norwood Lake
Wellerwood at Cheney Wellerwood
Westend at Gordon Oakleigh Elem
Widdicomb at Leonard Widdicomb
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