A Photo Tour Of The United States
Presidents Through Twin Cities City Street Signs

By John Weeks

Introduction Many cities use a naming scheme for city streets in order to make the street arrangement easier to remember. Minneapolis has a number of segments where street names are in alphabetical order. In other areas, names of trees and famous generals are used. One that interests me is the series of streets named after US Presidents in northeast Minneapolis. Here is a photo tour of those street signs.
President Washington Street Sign President Adams Street Sign President Jefferson Street Sign President Madison Street Sign
George Washington
#1—1789-1797
Downtown Minneapolis 		John Adams
#2—1797-1801
Northeast Minneapolis 		Thomas Jefferson
#3—1801-1809
Northeast Minneapolis 		James Madison
#4—1809-1817
Northeast Minneapolis
President Monroe Street Sign President Adams Street Sign President Jackson Street Sign President Van Buren Street Sign
James Monroe
#5—1817-1825
Northeast Minneapolis. 		John Quincy Adams
#6—1825-1829
Northeast Minneapolis. 		Andrew Jackson
#7—1829-1837
Northeast Minneapolis. 		Martin Van Buren
#8—1837-1841
Northeast Minneapolis.
President Harrison Street Sign President Tyler Street Sign President Polk Street Sign President Taylor Street Sign
William Henry Harrison
#9—1841
Northeast Minneapolis. 		John Tyler
#10—1841-1845
Northeast Minneapolis. 		James Knox Polk
#11—1845-1849
Northeast Minneapolis. 		Zachary Taylor
#12—1849-1850
Northeast Minneapolis.
President Fillmore Street Sign President Pierce Street Sign President Buchanan Street Sign President Lincoln Street Sign
Millard Fillmore
#13—1850-1853
Northeast Minneapolis. 		Franklin Pierce
#14—1853-1857
Northeast Minneapolis. 		James Buchanan
#15—1857-1861
Northeast Minneapolis. 		Abraham Lincoln
#16—1861-1865
Northeast Minneapolis.
President Johnson Street Sign President Grant Street Sign President Hayes Street Sign President Garfield Street Sign
Andrew Johnson
#17—1865-1869
Northeast Minneapolis. 		Ulysses Simpson Grant
#18—1869-1877
Northeast Minneapolis. 		Rutherford Birchard Hayes
#19—1877-1881
Northeast Minneapolis. 		James Abram Garfield
#20—1881
Northeast Minneapolis.
President Arthur Street Sign President Cleveland Street Sign President Harrison Street Sign President Cleveland Street Sign
Chester Alan Arthur
#21—1881-1885
Northeast Minneapolis. 		Grover Cleveland
#22—1885-1889
Northeast Minneapolis. 		Benjamin Harrison
#23—1889-1893
Northeast Minneapolis. 		Grover Cleveland
#24—1893-1897
Northeast Minneapolis.
President McKinley Street Sign President Roosevelt Street Sign President Taft Street Sign President Wilson Street Sign
William McKinley
#25—1897-1901
Northeast Minneapolis. 		Theodore Roosevelt
#26—1901-1909
Northeast Minneapolis. 		William Howard Taft
#27—1909-1913
Northeast Minneapolis. 		Woodrow Wilson
#28—1913-1921
Northeast Minneapolis.
President Harding Street Sign President Coolidge Street Sign President Hoover Street Sign President Roosevelt Street Sign
Warren Gamaliel Harding
#29—1921-1923
Northeast Minneapolis. 		Calvin Coolidge
#30—1923-1929
Northeast Minneapolis. 		Herbert Clark Hoover
#31—1929-1933
Northeast Minneapolis. 		Franklin Delano Roosevelt
#32—1933-1945
Northeast Minneapolis.
President Truman Street Sign President Eisenhower Street Sign President Kennedy Street Sign President Johnson Street Sign
Harry S. Truman
#33—1945-1953
Northfield, MN. 		Dwight David Eisenhower
#34—1953-1961
Northfield, MN. 		John Fitzgerald Kennedy
#35—1961-1963
Northeast Minneapolis. 		Lyndon Baines Johnson
#36—1963-1969
Bloomington, MN.
President Nixon Street Sign President Ford Street Sign President Carter Street Sign President Reagan Street Sign
Richard Milhous Nixon
#37—1969-1974
Watertown, MN. 		Gerald Rudolph Ford
#38—1974-1977
Southwest St. Paul. 		James Earl Carter Jr.
#39—1977-1981
Northwest St. Paul. 		Ronald Wilson Reagan
#40—1981-1989
Yet To Be Located.
President Bush Street Sign President Clinton Street Sign President Bush Street Sign 2008 President-Elect Street Sign
George Herbert Walker Bush
#41—1989-1993
Bloomington, MN. 		William Jefferson Clinton
#42—1993-2001
Northeast Minneapolis. 		George Walker Bush
#43—2001-2009
Bloomington, MN. 		Future President Elect
#44—2009-To Be Determined.
Note that not all Presidents have streets named after them in the twin cities metro area. Also, some street names are duplicated between cities. The Ford Parkway sign is actually named for the Ford Motor Company assembly plant, but it works well in this case for Gerald Ford. Clinton Ave certainly predates President Clinton's election victory in 1992. East Bush Lake Road and West Bush Lake Road are two different roads that each run north and south on opposite sides of Bush Lake in west Bloomington. I picked the east road for George HW Bush since he has the home in Maine, while I picked the west road for George W Bush since he has the ranch in Waco. President Reagan appears not to be honored with a street name anywhere within a reasonable drive of Minneapolis.

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