Alcor Street
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| Alcor Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | North Shore |
| Fate | Vacated in 1999 |
| Bank Lane (until ca. 1860) | |
| Origin of name | North bank of the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers |
| Balkam Street (ca. 1860 – 1912) | |
This former street was originally part of Bank Lane, which ran along the north bank of the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers except for a rectangular detour around the mouth of a creek about where PNC Park is today. This lane appears, unlabeled, in the 1788 map of the "Reserve Tract of Land Opposite Pittsburgh" (as the North Side was originally called).[1] This street was the eastern side of this rectangle.
About 1860 the various parts of Bank Lane were renamed, and the east side of the rectangular diversion became Balkam Street.[2][3]
Balkam Street was renamed Alcor Street by a city ordinance in 1912.[4]
Alcor Street was vacated by a resolution of the Pittsburgh City Council in 1999.[5]
References
- ↑ Reserve Tract of Land Opposite Pittsburgh. L. J. Richards & Co., 1863. Historic Pittsburgh DARMAP0084. Reproduced in Dan Rooney and Carol Peterson, Allegheny City: A History of Pittsburgh's North Side, pp. 2–3, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 2013, ISBN 978-0-8229-4422-5 (LCCN 2012047727). A variation entitled City of Allegheny 100 Years Ago is reproduced in Walter C. Kidney and Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr., Allegheny, p. 2, Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 1975 (LCCN 75-43276), and in Allegheny City Society, Allegheny City, 1840–1907, pp. 10–11, Images of America, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, S. C., 2007, ISBN 978-0-7385-5500-3 (LCCN 2007927944). [view source] reserve-tract
- ↑ S. N. & F. W. Beers. Map of Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania. Smith, Gallup & Hewitt, Philadelphia, 1862. LCCN 2012592151; https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agdm/id/31783; 1862 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] beers
- ↑ George H. Thurston. Directory of Pittsburgh and Allegheny Cities: And the adjoining boroughs of Birmingham, East Birmingham, Lawrenceville, Manchester, Duquesne, West Pittsburgh, South Pittsburgh, Monongahela, and Temperanceville; also, the villages of Brownstown, Minersville, East Liberty, Hatfield, Woodville, Troy Hill, Mt. Washington, Spring Garden, East Pittsburgh and Oakland; together with parts of Pitt, Collins, Peebles, St. Clair, M'Clure, Reserve, Chartiers and Shaler Townships, for 1862–63. George H. Thurston, Pittsburgh, 1862, p. 357. Historic Pittsburgh 31735038289116. [view source] thurston-1862
- ↑ "An ordinance changing the name of Balkam street, between River avenue and Reliance street, in the Twenty-second ward, to 'Alcor street.'" Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1912, no. 86. Passed Mar. 5, 1912; approved Mar. 8, 1912. Ordinance Book 23, p. 648. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1912, appendix, p. 76, Gill Press, Pittsburgh, 1912 (Google Books 3DQwAQAAMAAJ, H8JEAQAAMAAJ; HathiTrust chi.096598685, uiug.30112108223873; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1912). [view source] ordinance-1912-86
- ↑ "Resolution vacating of Alcor (E. General Robinson to River Ave.); Burdock Way (E. General to River Ave.); Cabra Way (Alcor St. to Burdock Way); River Ave. (Federal St. to westerly terminus) in the 22nd Ward, 6th Council District of the City of Pittsburgh." Pittsburgh city resolution, 1999, no. 62. Passed Feb. 16, 1999; approved Feb. 18, 1999; recorded Feb. 25, 1999. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1999 and Ordinances and Resolutions of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1999, vol. B, resolutions, pp. 80–81 (Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1999volA, Pghmunicipalrecord1999volA1, Pghmunicipalrecord1999volB, Pghmunicipalrecord1999volB1). [view source] resolution-1999-62
