Oporto Avenue

This article is about the short, residential street. For the major thoroughfare, see Oporto Road.

Detail of a 1957 Standard Oil street map showing the route of Oporto Avenue

Oporto Avenue (sometimes called Oporto Road) is a north-south residential street in the Brown Springs neighborhood. It stretches for three blocks from 71st Street to 74th Street South. The Brown Springs Ecoscape is at the northwest corner of Oporto and 73rd Street South. St James Baptist Church is across the street from the Ecoscape.

The avenue formerly extended from Naples Avenue at Ruffner Road southward across U.S. Highway 78 to Montclair Road, and then jogged over eastward to connect to Montevallo Road at Shades Avenue.

Much of Oporto Avenue's route was incorporated into the modern Oporto-Madrid Boulevard during redevelopment projects that included Eastwood Mall, Century Plaza, and I-20.

Notable addresses

• Brown Springs Ecoscape
• 7309: St James Baptist Church