Baylock Way
| Baylock Way | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | East Hills |
| Origin of name | Arbitrary name beginning with B, for its status as the second alley in Perchment's addition |
| Fate | Vacated in 1958 |
| Baylock Alley (until 1914) | |
| Origin of name | Second alley in Perchment's addition |
This former alley ran from Dornbush Street to Wilkinsburg Avenue, southeast of and parallel to Rolfe Street.[1] It was one of five parallel alleys laid out in 1892 in Peter D. and Mary E. Perchment's addition to the Borough of Brushton, though that plan did not give them names.[2]
Today's East Hills neighborhood was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1906,[3] and later that year a Pittsburgh city ordinance gave alphabetically sequential names to the unnamed alleys in the Perchment plan: from southeast to northwest, they became Acton Alley, Baylock Alley, Catron Alley, Dysart Alley, and Exley Alley.[4]
Baylock Alley became Baylock Way in 1914, when another ordinance changed all alleys in Pittsburgh to ways.[5]
Most of Baylock Way was vacated by a city ordinance in 1958.[6] This seems to have left a short stub of the alley at Wilkinsburg Avenue, but there is no trace of it today.
References
- ↑ Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Pittsburgh, vol. 3, plate 38. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1924. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1924-volume-3-plat-book-pittsburgh; included in the 1923 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1924-vol-3
- ↑ "Perchment's addition to Brushton Boro." Laid out Oct. 1892; recorded Nov. 5, 1892, Plan Book 13, pp. 108–110. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3780839. [view source] perchments-addition-plan
- ↑ Mark A. Connelly. "Sterrett Township–Pittsburgh City 1906 Merger." Local Geohistory Project. https://www.localgeohistory.pro/en/pa/event/sterrett-township-pittsburgh-city-1906-merger/. [view source] lgeo-east-hills-annexation
- ↑ "An ordinance changing and establishing the names of avenues, streets and alleys in the Forty-first ward of the City of Pittsburgh." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1906–1907, no. 209. Passed Sept. 10, 1906; approved Sept. 13, 1906. Ordinance Book 18, p. 27. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the [Select and Common Councils] of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1906–1907, appendix, p. 84, Devine & Co., Pittsburgh, 1907 (Google Books 2rxEAQAAMAAJ; HathiTrust chi.096599013; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1906). [view source] ordinance-1906-1907-209
- ↑ "An ordinance changing the name 'alley' on every thoroughfare in the City of Pittsburgh to 'way.'" Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1914, no. 402. Passed Nov. 10, 1914; approved Nov. 16, 1914. Ordinance Book 26, p. 360. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1914, appendix, p. 226, McClung Printing Co., Pittsburgh (HathiTrust uiug.30112108223899; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1914). Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post, Nov. 23, 1914, p. 11 (Newspapers.com 86505785), and Nov. 24, p. 12 (Newspapers.com 86505809). [view source] ordinance-1914-402
- ↑ "An ordinance vacating Absecon Street from Dornbush Street to Wilkinsburg Avenue, and Baylock Way from Dornbush Street to the line dividing Lots Nos. 267 and 268, a distance of approximately 323.98 feet." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1958, no. 508. Passed Nov. 24, 1958; approved Nov. 28, 1958. Ordinance Book 62, p. 272. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh: For the Year 1958, appendix, pp. 462–463, Park Printing, Inc., Pittsburgh (Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1958). [view source] ordinance-1958-508
