WISE AVENUE

IN DOGTOWN

• From: St. Louis Public Library on-line listings commpiled by Dr. Glen Holt and Thomas A. Pearson
  
  Entry on Wise Avenue
  
  WISE AVENUE (E-W). Originating in Berthold's Subdivision of Gratiot League Square in 1885, it was named for William Wise, then assistant sewer commissioner of St. Louis. It was known as Plateau Avenue between East Road and Macklind Avenue until 1881 and as Berthold Street from Sublette to the west line of the Cheltenham Subdivision until 1882. (Oakland)
  
  
• From: STREETS OF ST. LOUIS by William B. Magnan. Groton, Ct.: Right Press, Inc., 1994
  
  Henry J. Wise, early landowner.