Honoré Street

Honoré Street RP 1828 W., from 7352 N. to 11858 S.

Was Clayton Court

This street was named for Henry Hamilton Honoré (1824-1916), a Chicago real estate developer, helped establish Chicago’s parks and boulevard system. Of French ancestry, Honoré was in the wholesale hardware business in Louisville, Kentucky, before coming to Chicago in 1844. This is why some historians credit him with naming Ashland Avenue, which ran through his subdivision, after Henry Clay’s home in Kentucky.

Honoré’s daughter, Bertha Matilde Honoré, married Potter Palmer, of Palmer House fame, and she became Chicago’s leading socialite in the late 1800s.

But it was Henry Honoré’s work in developing the city’s parks that established his place in Chicago history. Referring to those accomplishments, Daniel Burnham said of Honoré, “wherever his hand appeared, there has been big, broad development, . . . he has ever looked into the future.”

Addresses

6700 Block

6736 N. Honoré Street was 6736 N. Clayton Court, Michael A. Koikes, 1919.

6742 N. Honoré Street was 6742 N. Clayton Court, D.J. McCammon, 1919.

6752 N. Honore Street is the address from which a street scene looking north toward Pratt was photographed in 1929.

7300 Block

7337 N. Honoré Street was 7337 N. Clayton Court, George Anderson, 1919.

7342 N. Honoré Street was 7342 N. Clayton Court, Ernest H. Kelley, 1919.