History of a street · 1200 Woluwe-Saint-Lambert

Avenue Herbert Hoover

In Dutch: Herbert Hooverlaan

Avenue Herbert Hoover, in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, has 75 buildings on the Atlas map, for 82 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1945 to 1969, with 55% of the buildings, but the street was built in several stages. Almost everything there appears after 1914.

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When the street was built

  • before 14000
  • 1400 – 15990
  • 1600 – 16990
  • 1700 – 17990
  • 1800 – 18490
  • 1850 – 18790
  • 1880 – 19130
  • 1914 – 194411
  • 1945 – 196941
  • 1970 – 198921
  • 1990 – 20092
  • since 20100

No building in the street is dated by the heritage inventory: the years are estimates by district.

Today's buildings, grouped by the period when the Atlas map first shows building on their plot. Approximate reconstruction.

Where its name comes from

Kind of name
Commemorative name
Theme
First World War
Named in
1938

Herbert Hoover (1874 – 1964), président du Comité de ravitaillement pour la Belgique durant la Première Guerre mondiale, puis président des Etats-Unis entre 1929 et 1933. (remark in French, as published)

Source: Odoniris, database of Brussels street names (EBxl), CC BY-SA 4.0.