47th Street

For other streets that have been named 47th Street, see 47th Street (disambiguation).

47th Street
Neighborhood	Central Lawrenceville
Origin of name	Sequential numbering up the Allegheny River
➤ Shoenberger Street (until 1868)
Origin of name	John H. Shoenberger
➤ 48th Street (1868)
Origin of name	Sequential numbering up the Allegheny River, including Fisk Street

The original name of 47th Street was Shoenberger Street, after John H. Shoenberger, who lived at 47th and Butler Streets, today part of Allegheny Cemetery.

In 1868, Pittsburgh's modern sequence of numbered streets was created by renaming all the streets perpendicular to the Allegheny River; Shoenberger Street became 47th Street. The original renaming ordinance included Fisk Street in the list of streets to be renamed, which made Shoenberger Street 48th, but this was apparently a mistake. Less than a month later, a supplementary ordinance repealed all of the name changes east of 40th Street and redid the numbering with Fisk Street omitted, which put Shoenberger Street at 47th.