Jefferson Avenue is a major, seven lane wide, north to south
thoroughfare
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extension, via watercraft or aircraft. On land, a thoroughfare may refer to anything from a multi-lane highway ...
in the city of
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the Greater St. Louis, ...
. For much of its run in south city Jefferson Avenue and
Grand Boulevard take a parallel course, separated by about sixteen
blocks. In the northern city, their concurrence varies some.
Transportation
Jefferson Avenue does not connect to the
Metrolink light rail service, but
MetroBus route 11 (Chippewa) does travel along much of the route.
Places on Jefferson Avenue
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JeffVanderLou
JeffVanderLou (JVL) is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The neighborhood is situated between North Vandeventer Avenue on the northwest, Natural Bridge Avenue on the northeast, North Jefferson Avenue on the East, Delmar Boulevard on the sou ...
neighborhood
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St. Louis Place
St. Louis Place is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. It is bounded by Palm Street on the North, Cass Avenue on the South, North Florissant on the East, and North Jefferson on the West.
It is home to National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's ...
neighborhood
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Carr Square neighborhood
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Midtown neighborhood
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Downtown West neighborhood
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Gate District neighborhood
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Lafayette Square neighborhood
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McKinley Heights neighborhood
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Fox Park neighborhood
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Gravois Park, St. Louis
Gravois Park is a historic List of neighborhoods of St. Louis, neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. Roughly bounded by Jefferson Avenue (St. Louis), Jefferson Avenue, Chippewa Street (St. Louis), Chippewa Street, Grand Boulevard (St. Louis), Gran ...
neighborhood
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Marine Villa, St. Louis
Marine Villa is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The neighborhood is located just south of the large and historic Anheuser-Busch Brewery complex along the bluffs of the Mississippi River. It is further defined by Cherokee Street's Antique ...
neighborhood
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Benton Park
Benton Park is a neighborhood in southside St. Louis, Missouri, just west of the Soulard neighborhood. The official boundaries of the area are Gravois Avenue on the north, Cherokee Street on the south, I-55 on the east, and Jefferson Avenue o ...
neighborhood
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Benton Park West neighborhood
* Jefferson Underground Building (2400 S. Jefferson Ave.) now home of
Arch Reactor
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Arches may be synonymous with vaul ...
hackerspace
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See also
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Streetcars in St. Louis, Missouri
Streetcars in St. Louis, Missouri operated as part of the transportation network of St. Louis from the middle of the 19th century through the early 1960s. During the first forty years of the streetcar in the city, a variety of private companies op ...
References
{{Streets of Greater St. Louis
Streets in St. Louis