Colescott Street
From Pittsburgh Streets
| Colescott Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Westwood |
| Columbia Avenue (until 1910, 1927) | |
| Origin of name | Columbia University |
This street appears as Columbia Avenue in the 1905 Hopkins atlas as part of the Westwood Plan,[1] laid out by C. B. Harmon.[2] It was named for Columbia University. Nearly all of the avenues in this plan were originally named for colleges and universities;[3] in addition to Columbia Avenue, the plan included the following:[1]
- Amherst Avenue, today Highman Street
- Brown Avenue, today part of Jerome Street
- Bryn Mawr Avenue, today part of Bartow Street
- Cambridge Avenue, today Elmdale Road
- Cornell Avenue, today Queensbury Street
- Delaware Avenue, today Dale Street
- Denison Avenue, today Denisonview Street
- Harvard Avenue, today Hartwell Street
- Kenyon Avenue, today part of Bartow Street
- Lehigh Avenue, today Lynch Street
- Oberlin Avenue, today Vinemont Street
- Oxford Avenue, today Oxford Street
- Pennsylvania Avenue, today Warriors Road
- Princeton Avenue, today Ledgedale Street
- Vassar Avenue, today Vare Street
- Yale Avenue, today Clearview Avenue
As Westwood was annexed piece by piece into the city of Pittsburgh, Columbia Avenue was renamed Colescott Street: the easternmost part in 1910,[4] and the rest in 1927.[5][6]
See also
- Columbia Place
- Colville Street, originally named Columbia Street
- Twain Street, originally named Columbia Court
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Real Estate Plat-Book of the Southern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, plate 18. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1905. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1905-plat-book-southern-pittsburgh; included in the 1903–1906 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1905
- ↑ Plat-Book of the City of Pittsburgh, vol. 7, plate 22. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1917, revised 1928. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1917-volume-7-plat-book-pittsburgh-south-side-southern; included in the 1923 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1917-vol-7
- ↑ Bob Regan. The Names of Pittsburgh: How the City, Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks and More Got Their Names, p. 60. The Local History Company, Pittsburgh, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9770429-7-5. [view source] regan
- ↑ "An ordinance changing the names of certain avenues, streets, lanes and alleys in the City of Pittsburgh." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1910, no. 715. Passed Mar. 31, 1910; approved Apr. 5, 1910. Ordinance Book 21, p. 342. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the [Select and Common Councils] of the City of Pittsburgh for the Years 1909–1910, appendix, pp. 312–328, Devine & Co., Pittsburgh, 1910 (Google Books doQzAQAAMAAJ; HathiTrust uiug.30112108223832; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1909). Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post, Apr. 19, 1910, pp. 10–11 (Newspapers.com 86611990, 86612022), Apr. 20, pp. 10–11 (Newspapers.com 86612278, 86612297), and Apr. 21, pp. 10–11 (Newspapers.com 86612601, 86612625). [view source] ordinance-1910-715
- ↑ "An ordinance changing the names of certain avenues, streets, lanes, alleys and ways in the Twenty-eighth Ward (formerly Westwood Borough)." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1927, no. 244. Passed Mar. 28, 1927; approved Mar. 31, 1927. Ordinance Book 38, p. 448. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh: For the Year 1927, appendix, pp. 211–212, Smith Bros. Co. Inc., Pittsburgh (Google Books cZfgUddPQR0C; HathiTrust uiug.30112109819802; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1927). [view source] ordinance-1927-244
- ↑ "Street names in Westwood are changed: Thirty-one given new designations to avoid duplication." Pittsburgh Post, Mar. 29, 1927, p. 5. Newspapers.com 88713819. [view source] street-names-in-westwood
