The idea was not taken up until after the Revolution, when a new system of house numbering was introduced in 1790 to make it easier to collect taxes; this new system assigned numbers to houses not by streets but by districts. A similar system was adopted in Venice.

Who invented street addresses?

History of address numbering in US

In Chicago, Edward P. Brennan worked in his spare time over 8 years to create a proposal to increase the efficiencies of the street name and addressing system, which was largely approved in 1909.

Where was house numbering invented?

In London, one of the first recorded instances of a street being numbered is Prescot Street in Goodman's Fields in 1708. By the end of the century, the numbering of houses had become well established and seems to have been done on the consecutive, rather than the odd and even principle which we know now.