Cedarhurst Street

Cedarhurst Street
Neighborhoods	Allentown, Beltzhoover, Knoxville
➤ Knox Alley (until 1881)
Portion	Allentown
➤ Hartford Street (until 1927)
Portion	Knoxville
➤ Fifth Street (until 1898)
Portion	Beltzhoover
Origin of name	Sequential numbering of streets, beginning with Warrington Avenue
➤ Alice Alley (1881–1914)
Portion	Allentown
➤ California Street (1898–1910)
Portion	Beltzhoover
➤ Alice Way (1914–1927)
Portion	Allentown
➤ Nest Way (1927)
Portion	Allentown

The eastern half of Cedarhurst Street forms the boundary between Allentown and Knoxville. It began as an alley along the southern edge of the original plan of Allentown, laid out by Boyd and Allen and recorded in 1866. That plan did not give it a name, but it was named Knox Alley by 1872.

In 1873, the first plan of Knoxville was laid out for William W. Knox and Frederick Bausman. It included a street along its northern edge (the southern edge of Allentown) named Hartford Street. This street was continued westward in the Knox, Bausman, and Mathews plan of 1880.

Benjamin McLain and Thomas S. Maple laid out a corresponding street named Fifth Street in 1874 in their first plan of Beltzhoover, so called because it was the fifth street in their plan, starting with Washington Avenue (today Warrington Avenue). This numbering continued the system begun in Boyd and Allen's 1866 plan of Allentown, though Boyd and Allen did not include Knox Alley in their numbered sequence.

The Borough of Allentown was annexed by the City of Pittsburgh in 1872. In 1881, a Pittsburgh city ordinance renamed many streets to fix duplicates. In order to avoid confusion with Knox Avenue, Knox Alley was renamed Alice Alley.

In 1898 the Borough of Beltzhoover was annexed, and a city ordinance that same year changed Fifth Street in Beltzhoover to California Street to fix the duplication with Fifth Street downtown (today the north half of Stanwix Street).

The City of Allegheny was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907, which prompted another major renaming of streets in 1910 to fix duplicates. In order to prevent confusion with California Avenue on the North Side, California Street in Beltzhoover was changed to Cedarhurst Street.

Alice Alley became Alice Way in 1914, when a city ordinance changed all alleys in Pittsburgh to ways.

Finally, in 1927, the Borough of Knoxville was annexed. This spurred another set of street name changes. Alice Way was renamed Nest Way, and Hartford Street in Knoxville was made part of Cedarhurst Street to fix the duplication with Hartford Street in Allentown and the South Side Slopes. Two months later it was apparently realized that Nest Way and Cedarhurst Street were two names for the same thoroughfare, so the name Nest Way was eliminated.

See also

• California Avenue
• Fifth Street, for other streets that have had that name
• Hartford Street
• Knox Avenue