Dunfermline Street

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Dunfermline Street
Neighborhoods Homewood South, Point Breeze
Origin of name Dunfermline, Scotland
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Ashland Street (until ca. 1880)

The 1882 Hopkins atlas shows Ashland Street running between Penn Avenue and Edgerton Avenue alongside the estate of Thomas Carnegie, the brother of Andrew Carnegie (and eponym of Carnegie Place).[1] The Carnegie brothers had been born in the town of Dunfermline in Scotland,[2][3][4] and an 1881 ordinance establishing the names of all streets in the city named it Dunfermline Street (making no mention of the name Ashland Street).[5] By 1890, Dunfermline Street had been extended, at least on paper, as far north as Grazier Street, today's Hamilton Avenue.[6][7]

The opening of Dunfermline Street from Penn Avenue to Edgerton Avenue was recommended by the Committee on Public Works as early as 1889,[8] but the extent to which City Council officially acted upon this recommendation is unclear; Dunfermline Street south of the Pennsylvania Railroad was still shown with dotted lines in the Hopkins atlas of 1910.[9] It was officially split into North Dunfermline Street and South Dunfermline Street, on either side of Penn Avenue, by a city ordinance in 1915.[10] Two ordinances, from 1920 and 1921, both claimed to open South Dunfermline Street south of Reynolds Street.[11][12]

References

  1. ↑ Atlas of the Cities Pittsburgh and Allegheny. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1882. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1882-atlas-pittsburgh-allegheny; 1882 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1882
  2. ↑ James Howard Bridge. The Inside History of the Carnegie Steel Company: A Romance of Millions, p. 13. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 1991, ISBN 0-8229-1166-3, 0-8229-6095-8. Historic Pittsburgh 31735057892535. First published as History of the Carnegie Steel Company, Aldine Book Co., New York, 1903. [view source] bridge
  3. ↑ Andrew Carnegie. John C. Van Dyke, ed. Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, p. 2. Houghton Mifflin, Boston and New York, 1920. Internet Archive autobiography00carnuoft, autobiographyan00dykegoog, autobiographyan01carngoog, autobiographyofa0000carn_b0m4, autobiographyofa00carn, autobiographyofa00carn_1, autobiographyofaac00carn, cu31924029807728. [view source] carnegie-autobio
  4. ↑ Les Standiford. Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America, p. 29. Three Rivers Press, New York, 2005, ISBN 978-1-4000-4768-0. [view source] standiford
  5. ↑ "An ordinance establishing the names of avenues, streets, lanes and alleys of the City of Pittsburgh." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1881, no. 33. Passed Feb. 28, 1881; approved Mar. 4, 1881. Ordinance Book 5, p. 212. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Select and Common Councils of the City of Pittsburgh, for the Year 1880, pp. 213–234 (Internet Archive pghmunicipalrecord1880). [view source] ordinance-1881-33
  6. ↑ Atlas of the City of Pittsburgh, vol. 3. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1890. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1890-volume-3-atlas-pittsburgh; included in the 1890 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1890-vol-3
  7. ↑ Atlas of the City of Pittsburgh, vol. 4. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1890. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1890-volume-4-atlas-pittsburgh; included in the 1890 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1890-vol-4
  8. ↑ "Your street and others: Committee on Public Works authorizes many improvements." Pittsburg Dispatch, Apr. 17, 1889, p. 2. Newspapers.com 76227402. [view source] your-street-and-others
  9. ↑ Atlas of Greater Pittsburgh. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1910. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1910-atlas-greater-pittsburgh; 1910 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1910
  10. ↑ "An ordinance changing the names of certain avenues, streets and ways in the City of Pittsburgh." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1915, no. 117. Passed Apr. 28, 1915; approved Apr. 29, 1915. Ordinance Book 26, p. 615. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1915, appendix, pp. 99–103, Arlington Printing Co., Pittsburgh, 1915 (Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1915). Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post, May 7, 1915, sporting section, p. 4 (Newspapers.com 88028157), May 8, p. 15 (Newspapers.com 88028802), and May 10, p. 11 (Newspapers.com 88030672). [view source] ordinance-1915-117
  11. ↑ "An ordinance opening South Dunfermline Street, in the Fourteenth Ward, from Reynolds Street to a point 165.25 feet southwardly therefrom and providing that the cost, damages and expenses occasioned thereby be assessed against and collected from properties benefited thereby." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1920, no. 97. Passed Mar. 15, 1920; approved Mar. 23, 1920. Ordinance Book 31, p. 260. Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post, Apr. 2, 1920, p. 17 (Newspapers.com 87630358). [view source] ordinance-1920-97
  12. ↑ "An ordinance opening South Dunfermline street, in the Fourteenth ward of the City of Pittsburgh, from the northerly line of Reynolds street to a point 257.66 feet southwardly therefrom; establishing the grade thereon and providing that the cost, damages and expenses occasioned thereby be assessed against and collected from properties benefited thereby." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1921, no. 157. Passed May 2, 1921; approved May 9, 1921. Ordinance Book 32, p. 281. Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post, May 17, 1921, p. 15 (Newspapers.com 87222431). [view source] ordinance-1921-157
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