Roosevelt Avenue in St Albans – formerly Courtenay Street from Westminster Street to Innes Road. Named after Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882- 1945). Roosevelt was 32nd President of the USA 1933-1945. First appears in street directories in 1947.
A small amount of information on the library website. Not much information on Papers Past as it was mostly ads plus death notices. I only looked for information when it was Roosevelt Avenue. A church is mentioned several times as being on the corner of Roosevelt Avenue and Malvern Street. The church was St David’s Church but then I was getting funeral notices for a Greek Orthodox Church at the same corner. A bit more searching and St David’s Church was established in 1928 and the last entry I found was dated 1957. The earliest entry for the Greek Orthodox Church that I found was in 1961. I couldn’t any entries explaining the change from an Anglican church to Greek Orthodox. For a while the Russian Orthodox Church used the building until they built their own church. Technically the address for the church is on Malvern Street but most of the facade is on Roosevelt Avenue.
I walked this street early on Monday morning after I had been lurking behind trees in Malvern Park trying to get photos of the solar eclipse.
There are some modern ugly houses on the street but most houses were built between 1910 and 1930. It is a lovely tree lined street with Malvern Park at one end.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 