This “Charles” is almost certainly a reference to Charles Robert La Fayette “C.R.L.” Crenshaw (1881-1974), who with his father George (see Crenshaw Boulevard) laid out this street in 1912 on their La Fayette Square tract. (Nearby Virginia Road is likely named for the Crenshaw matriarch.) The younger Crenshaw was born and raised in Missouri and graduated from the University of Michigan; he married the charmingly-named Alpha Allen in 1909. Early ads for La Fayette Square claimed that St. Charles Place, with its wide median, was “a direct reproduction of the famous promenade surrounding the magnificent Theatro [sic] Municipal at Rio de Janerio [sic], South America.” I’ll take their word for it.
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