Home Street
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| Home Street | |
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| Neighborhood | Central Lawrenceville |
| 47th Street (ca. 1870) | |
| Origin of name | Sequential numbering up the Allegheny River |
| 46½ Street (ca. 1870 – 1873) | |
| Origin of name | Its location between 46th Street and 47th Street |
This street was laid out in 1870 as part of the subdivision of the Irwin estate.[1][2] The numbering of the streets perpendicular to the Allegheny River had been done only two years earlier,[3][4] and there seems to have been some confusion about how the numbering was to be applied here, for the Irwin estate plan recorded in 1871 labels this street 47th Street (and modern 47th Street 48th Street).[1] Petitions for the grading and opening of the street in 1873 called it "Forty-six-and-a-half, or Home street."[5] It was officially opened as Home Street by a city ordinance later that year.[6]
See also
- 47th Street (disambiguation), for other streets that have had that name
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Plan of the subdivision of the Irwin estate: Situated between the A. V. Rail Road and Centre Street & 45th & 48th Streets City of Pittsburgh made at the request of G. S. Bates Esq." Laid out Dec. 12, 1870; recorded Jan. 17, 1871, Plan Book 4, pp. 70–71. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3778844. [view source] irwin-estate-plan-1
- ↑ "Plan of the subdivision of the Irwin estate: Situated between the A. V. R. R. Centre St. 45th & 47th St's. Pittsburgh Pa. made at the request of G. S. Bates, Esq." Laid out Dec. 1870; recorded July 27, 1880, Plan Book 6, p. 222. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3779443. [view source] irwin-estate-plan-2
- ↑ "An ordinance changing the names of streets." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1868. Passed Aug. 31, 1868. In The Municipal Record: Containing the Proceedings of the Select and Common Councils of the City of Pittsburgh: 1868, Pittsburgh Daily Commercial, Pittsburgh (Internet Archive pghmunicipalrecord1868_20200904_2014). Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Gazette, Sept. 2, 1868, p. 5 (Newspapers.com 86347563), Sept. 3, p. 3 (Newspapers.com 86347623), and Sept. 4, p. 3 (Newspapers.com 86347714). [view source] ordinance-1868-name-changes
- ↑ "An ordinance supplementary to an ordinance changing the names of streets." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1868. Passed Sept. 28, 1868. Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Gazette, Oct. 1, 1868, p. 7 (Newspapers.com 86349783), and Oct. 2, p. 7 (Newspapers.com 86349850). [view source] ordinance-1868-name-changes-supplement
- ↑ The Municipal Record: Containing the Proceedings of the Select and Common Councils of the City of Pittsburgh, Together with the Ordinances, &c.: With an Index, vol. V, p. 21. Pittsburgh Daily Gazette, Pittsburgh, 1873. Internet Archive pghmunicipalrecord1872. [view source] municipal-record-1873
- ↑ "An ordinance authorizing the opening of Home street, from Centre street to Valley street, to a width of fifty feet." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1873, no. 102. Enacted June 9, 1873. Ordinance Book 4, p. 5. In The Municipal Record: Containing the Proceedings of the Select and Common Councils of the City of Pittsburgh, Together with the Ordinances, &c.: With an Index, vol. V, p. 70, Pittsburgh Daily Gazette, Pittsburgh, 1873 (Internet Archive pghmunicipalrecord1872). [view source] ordinance-1873-102
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