Columbia Avenue

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Columbia Avenue Soundex Code C451

6734 N., from 1040 W. to 7758 W. This street is in Rogers Park from Glenwood Avenue east to Lake Michigan - ONLY

Columbia Avenue was named by the realtor A.W. Wallen for his alma mater, Columbia College in New York City. In 1912, the school's name was changed to Columbia University.

The City Council passed a lengthy ordinance January 14, 1895, rationalizing the street naming system. Columbia Avenue is an E-W street, so all street numbers in Rogers Park should not require conversion, as there were none far enough east to be in Rogers Park..

Not listed in the 1895, 1897, 1898 Chicago Blue Book.

Listed in the 1901 Chicago Blue Book page 33. Columbia Avenue (West Division) from 1318 Milwaukee Avenue west to Leavitt Avenue. Resident addresses are on page 294.

Listed in the 1902 Chicago Blue Book page 33. Columbia Avenue (West Division) from 1318 Milwaukee Avenue west to Leavitt Avenue. Resident addresses are on page 285.

Listed in the 1903 Chicago Blue Book page 33. Columbia Avenue (West Division) from 1318 Milwaukee Avenue west to Leavitt Avenue. Resident addresses are on page 285.

Listed in the 1904 Chicago Blue Book page 33. Columbia Avenue (West Division) from 1318 Milwaukee Avenue west to Leavitt Avenue. Resident addresses are on page 286.


Rogers Park Addresses

<100 Block

21 Columbia Street, Dr. & Mrs. George E.O. Thilo, 1901.

21 Columbia Street, Dr. George Thilo, 1901.

39 Columbia Street, Dr. & Mrs. George Thilo, 1902, 1903, 1904.

39 Columbia Street, Dr. George Thilo, Jr., 1902.

39 Columbia Street now 2138 W. Columbia Avenue

46 Columbia Street, now 2145 Columbia Street, Mr. & Mrs. W.F. Wiemers, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904.

46 Columbia Street, now 2145 Columbia Street, Mr. & Mrs. John F. Smulski, 1904.

56 Columbia Street, now 2155 W. Columbia Street Mr. & Mrs. Charles Hansen, 1902, 1903, 1904.

59 Columbia Street, now 1256 Columbia Street, Mr. & Mrs. Ole A. Thorp, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904.

500 Block

541 W. Columbia Avenue, Kee & Chapell Dairy Company, 1919.

1000 Block

1049 W. Columbia Avenue,

1051 W. Columbia Avenue, Fred P. Bodinson, 1919.

1051 W. Columbia Avenue, Louis P. Mann, 1919.

1053 W. Columbia Avenue, John M. Heimlich, 1919.

1053 W. Columbia Avenue, Theodore J. Johnson, 1919.

1054 W. Columbia Avenue was the residence of E.D. Moeng circa 1910.

1055 W. Columbia Avenue, Mrs. George Menard, Sr., 1919.

1058 W. Columbia Avenue, Chester A. Creider, 1919.

1058 W. Columbia Avenue, J.C. Davis, Jr., 1919.

1058 W. Columbia Avenue, W.B. Henderson, 1919.

1059 W. Columbia Avenue, William B. Bickford, 1919.

1059 W. Columbia Avenue, Edward B. Fleisch, 1919.

1062 W. Columbia Avenue, John T. Dix, 1919.

1100 Block

1100 W. Columbia Avenue, Frank B. Long, 1919.

1101 W. Columbia Avenue

1102 W. Columbia Avenue, A.C. Bonnet, 1919.

1102 W. Columbia Avenue, F.E. Gridley, 1919.

1104 W. Columbia Avenue, E.P. Clark, 1919.

1104 W. Columbia Avenue, William Doody, 1919.

1104 W. Columbia Avenue, E.E. Kauffman, 1919.

1106 W. Columbia Avenue, Doris Carew, 1919.

1106 W. Columbia Avenue, Mrs. Frances Hodgett, 1919.

1108 W. Columbia Avenue, Charles Falkow, 1919.

1108 W. Columbia Avenue, Mrs. Anna L. Fielder, 1919.

1108 W. Columbia Avenue, P.C. Gates, 1919.

1108 W. Columbia Avenue, William K. Hamilton, 1919.

1108 W. Columbia Avenue, Mamie Healy, 1919.

1110 W. Columbia Avenue, Edward J. Dies, 1919.

1110 W. Columbia Avenue, Miss Ruth Hayden, 1919.

1110 W. Columbia Avenue, T.B. Keyes, M.D., 1919.

1110 W. Columbia Avenue, J.C. Lucas, 1919.

1112 W. Columbia Avenue, L.D. Linton, 1919.

1114 W. Columbia Avenue, C.F. Cooke, 1919.

1116 W. Columbia Avenue, George W. Cook, 1919.

1116 W. Columbia Avenue, Albert J. Hoelscher, 1919.

1116 W. Columbia Avenue, F.S. Hutchins, 1919.

1117 W. Columbia Avenue, Patrick J. Curry, 1919.

1117 W. Columbia Avenue, Walter H. Hoag, 1919.

1117 W. Columbia Avenue, George E. Lenz, 1919.

1121 W. Columbia Avenue, John Wilson Hill, 1917.

1121 W. Columbia Avenue, Roy Wilson Hill, 1917.

1121 W. Columbia Avenue, Frank J. Carroll, 1919.

1121 W. Columbia Avenue, C.S. Gurney, 1919.

1121 W. Columbia Avenue, John W. Hill 2, 1919.

1122 W. Columbia Avenue, Frederick A. Miller, 1917.

1122 W. Columbia Avenue, Joseph A. Bates, 1919.

1122 W. Columbia Avenue, W.B. Carter, 1919.

1122 W. Columbia Avenue, Frank I. Furber, 1919.

1127 W. Columbia Avenue, James R. Bibbins, 1919.

1127 W. Columbia Avenue, P. Egan, 1919.

1127 W. Columbia Avenue, Thomas F. Limber, 1919.

1128 W. Columbia Avenue

1132-34 W. Columbia Avenue was an Apartment Building in November 1981.

1132 W. Columbia Avenue, John C. Anderson, 1919.

1132 W. Columbia Avenue, Thomas F.H. Leyden, 1919.

1133 W. Columbia Avenue, J.C. Corcoran, 1919.

1133 W. Columbia Avenue, E.W. Dooley, 1919.

1134 W. Columbia Avenue, Peter W. Coppersmith, 1919.

1137 W. Columbia Avenue, John G. Daly, 1919.

1137 W. Columbia Avenue, Frank M. Hickok, 1919.

1140 W. Columbia Avenue, Joe Block, 1919.

1141 W. Columbia Avenue, John Wesley Palmer, 1912, 1913, 1914.

1141 W. Columbia Avenue, Agness McCarthy, 1919.

1142 W. Columbia Avenue, Michael R. Farrell, 1919.

1146 W. Columbia Avenue, Walton H. Daniels, 1919.

1200 Block

1211 W. Columbia Avenue, Robert G. Eliel, 1919.

1218 W. Columbia Avenue, Peter J. Brennan, 1919.

1218 W. Columbia Avenue, Thomas J. Byrne, 1919.

1219 W. Columbia Avenue, O.L. Hermanson, 1919.

1220 W. Columbia Avenue, C.H. Clemens, 1919.

1220 W. Columbia Avenue, Phillip Karl, 1919.

1223 W. Columbia Avenue, Carl J. Huppert, 1919.

1224 W. Columbia Avenue, Mark M. Duffy, M.D., 1919.

1227 W. Columbia Avenue, Joseph J. Goss, 1919.

1228 W. Columbia Avenue, Charles H. Challen, 1919.

1228 W. Columbia Avenue, Francis Daniel Connery, 1919.

1228 W. Columbia Avenue, P.W. Cruickshank, 1919.

1229 W. Columbia Avenue Anton Kuhn, 1919.

1229 W. Columbia Avenue, Horace MacRoberts, 1919.

1230 W. Columbia Avenue, Alpha B. Cosler, 1919.

1230 W. Columbia Avenue, W.A. Davidson, 1919.

1230 W. Columbia Avenue, John J. McHugh, 1919.

1233 W. Columbia Avenue, Miss Josephine Haggenjos, 1919.

1234 W. Columbia Avenue, Frederick E. Baumann, 1919.

1234 W. Columbia Avenue, William T. Campbell, 1919.

1236 W. Columbia Avenue, E.W. Flanagan, 1919.

1236 W. Columbia Avenue, James P. Hayes, 1919.

1237 W. Columbia Avenue, Charles F. Kent, 1919.

1238 W. Columbia Avenue, Walter A. Birmingham, 1919.

1241 W. Columbia Avenue, Henry A. Barry, 1919.

1241 W. Columbia Avenue, John F. Craddock, 1919.

1242 W. Columbia Avenue, Mrs. M.N. Jacknian, 1919.

1242 W. Columbia Avenue, William H. Koch, 1919.

1242 W. Columbia Avenue, Charles N. Lockwood, 1919.

1243 W. Columbia Avenue, Edward H. Bloeser, 1919.

1243 W. Columbia Avenue, Edward Duffy, 1919.

1243 W. Columbia Avenue, B.C. Gunn, 1919.

1243 W. Columbia Avenue, James E. Gunn, 1919.

1246 W. Columbia Avenue, Edward O. Brooks, 1919.

1246 W. Columbia Avenue, Reverend A.L. Lassen, 1919.

1250 W. Columbia Avenue, Arthur R. Chamberlain, 1919.

1251 W. Columbia Avenue, William E. Hyde, 1919.

1251 W. Columbia Avenue, Louis B. Linkman, 1919.

1252 W. Columbia Avenue, George F. Gebhardt, 1919.

1254 W. Columbia Avenue, J. William Cameron, 1919.

1254 W. Columbia Avenue, J.T. Duffy, 1919.

1254 W. Columbia Avenue, R.J. Hanley, 1919.

1255 W. Columbia Avenue, James A. Brennan, 1919.

1255 W. Columbia Avenue, Charles W. Curry, 1919.

1256 Columbia Street, was 59 Columbia Street, Mr. & Mrs. Ole A. Thorp, 1901.

1256 W. Columbia Avenue, E.V. Aldridge, 1919.

1256 W. Columbia Avenue, J.M. Brooks, 1919.

1256 W. Columbia Avenue, Fred W. Hegman, 1919.

1257 W. Columbia Avenue is the Lazarus Playlot Park.

1258 W. Columbia Avenue, Earl C. Cary, 1919.

1258 W. Columbia Avenue, Daniel J. Coyle, Jr., 1919.

1258 W. Columbia Avenue, Elmer C. Kimball, 1919.

1260 W. Columbia Avenue, W.H. Compton, 1919.

1260 W. Columbia Avenue, Albert J. Gamble, 1919.

1262 W. Columbia Avenue, Rosco K. Cross, 1919.

1262 W. Columbia Avenue, Herbert C. Elwes, 1919.

1263 W. Columbia Avenue, Raymond E. Cobisky, 1919.

1263 W. Columbia Avenue, Alfred V. Mathews, 1919.

1265 W. Columbia Avenue, M.J. Keigher, 1919.

1300 Block

1301 W. Columbia Avenue, John Abel, 1919.

1301 W. Columbia Avenue, George A. Knott, 1919.

1303 W. Columbia Avenue, R.E. Crowns, 1919.

1303 W. Columbia Avenue, Earnnoy Edwards, 1919.

1306 W. Columbia Avenue, Mrs. Sadie Grubb, 1919.

1310 W. Columbia Avenue, George W. McFarland, 1919.

1314 W. Columbia Avenue, Axel Lagerstrom, 1919.

1317 W. Columbia Avenue, Harry J. Hebner, 1919.

1318 W. Columbia Avenue, Peter A. Masterson, 1919.

1319 W. Columbia Avenue, Frank P. McCaughey, 1919.

1321 W. Columbia Avenue, Harry Matthew Hansen, 1917.

1322 W. Columbia Avenue, William Stetson Merrill, 1919.

1323 W. Columbia Avenue, Wayne F. Browning, 1919.

1323 W. Columbia Avenue, Charles Dubsky, 1919.

1326 W. Columbia Avenue, Mrs. Mary L. Devereaux, 1919.

1330 W. Columbia Avenue, J.K. Laird, 1919.

1334 W. Columbia Avenue, Leonard Clements, 1919.

1336 W. Columbia Avenue, Paul Bauer, 1919.

1336 W. Columbia Avenue, the Bezanis House.

1700 Block

1741 W. Columbia Avenue, Blue Beryl Dharma Center, 2016.

1800 Block

1811 Columbia Avenue, Bowman Dairy, 1919.

1811 W. Columbia Avenue, Kee & Chapell Dairy Company, 1919.

1834 W. Columbia Avenue was the Bowman Dairy Company.

1849 W. Columbia Avenue, George McLain, 1919.

West Ridge Addresses

2100 Block

2138 W. Columbia Avenue was 39 Columbia Street

2142 W. Columbia Avenue, Otto Schulz, 1911.

2145 Columbia Avenue, was 46 Columbia Street, Mr. & Mrs. W.F. Wiemers, 1901.

2155 W. Columbia Street, was 56 Columbia Street