354 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



Street name continues, it will be a lasting shame and disgrace to Pasadena. 

 It ought to be Bandini Avenue clear through. 



Benefit Court. — Opened in 1887 by A. F. Keyes, and named from 

 Benefit street in Worcester, Mass., his former home. 



Bellevue Drive. — Opened by James Smith in 1885. Bellevue is French 

 for beautiful or lovely view, and is a smooth, easy, pleasant-sounding word ; 

 and for these reasons it was applied as a name for this street. 



Bradford Street. — Opened by H. J. Holmes. He had a favorite son 

 who graduated in the Naval Academy at Anapolis, Maryland, and held an 

 official position in the U. S. navy. This son married a Miss Bradford ; 

 they had a boy baby named Bradford Holmes, and Mr. Holmes named his 

 new street after this little grandson. 



Buckeye Street. — Opened by Elon Hart, and named from Ohio, the 

 Buckeye state, from whence he came. 



Burton Street. — Opened by Mrs. Mary A. Burton, and named for her 

 husband. (1887.) 



Camden Street. — Opened by Hon. Delos Arnold and Dr. O. H. 

 Conger, and named that way by Mr. Arnold just because he fancied the 

 name. 



Carlton Street. — Opened by F. B. Wetherby, in 1886, and named 

 from the Carlton hotel, which was just at that time the most notable project 

 under way at Pasadena's business center. 



Center Street. — Opened and named by M. H. Weight, in August, 

 1885, through the "center" of his land. 



Champlain Street. — Opened by, W. S. Holland, in 1886. His birth- 

 place was Penton, Vermont, on Lake Champlain, and this was why he 

 so named his new street. 



Chestnut Street. — Opened by H. F. Goodwin, 1886 ; named from 

 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. 



Concord Street {Co7crt). In 1886-87 some New Kngland people 



opened this small extension opposite the east end of Kansas street ; and in 

 February, 1887, they started a movement to have the name of Kansas street 

 changed to Concord street, notwithstanding that for a length of six squares 

 (from Marengo to Vernon avenue) it had been duly entered on the county 

 records as Kansas street. Against this presumptuous move a storm of 

 indignation and vehement protest was raised by the settlers and lot-owners 

 on Kansas street ; and the project failed. [In 1894 the City Council changed 

 the name to Green street, in deference to Hotel Green and its owner.] 



Congress Street. — The H. H. Markham tract was platted and put 

 upon the market by a real estate firm while Mr. Markham was in congress 

 from this district, and the street was named by them in honor of the public 

 place which he then held — 1885. This was five years before he reached the 

 higher distinction of Governor of California. 



